Charlie Bondhus' poetry book All the Heat We Could Carry won Main Street Rags Annual Poetry Book Award for 2013 and is due out in November. He has also published How the Boy Might See It (Pecan Grove Press, 2009), a finalist for the 2007 Blue Light Press First Book Award, and two chapbooks What We Have Learned to Love, which won the Brickhouse Books' 2008-2009 Stonewall Competition, and Monsters and Victims (Gothic Press, 2010). His poetry appears or is set to appear in numerous periodicals, including The Hawaii Review, The Wisconsin Review, The Alabama Literary Review, The Sierra Nevada Review, Cold Mountain Review, The Baltimore Review, and others. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He teaches at Raritan Valley Community College in New Jersey.