Chad Sweeney is the author of Parable of Hide and Seek (Alice James, 2010), Arranging the Blaze (Anhinga, 2009), An Architecture (BlazeVox, 2007), and five chapbooks, most recently The Lost Notebooks of Juan Sweeney (Forklift, 2010). He edited the anthology Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds: (City Lights, 2009) and is coeditor of Parthenon West Review. Chad is a PhD student in Literature at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.