Eric Lochridge is the author of My Breath Floats Away from Me and three poetry chapbooks: Born-Again Death Wish, Real Boy Blues, and Father’s Curse. His poems have appeared in DIAGRAM, UCity Review, Okay Donkey, Hawaii Pacific Review, Slipstream, and many others, as well as in anthologies such as WA 129 and Beloved on the Earth. A graduate of the Rainier Writing Workshop, he lives in western Washington between the mountains and the sea.