Allen Berry was born and raised in Alabama, and is a 2013 Ph.D. graduate of the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. In 2001, he founded the Limestone Dust Poetry Festival in Huntsville, Alabama, and served as its director until 2009. His work has appeared in The Birmingham Arts Journal, What Remembers Us: An Anthology of Alabama Poetry, The American Muse Magazine and The Quint Magazine (Manitoba, Canada). Dr. Berry teaches Composition, American Literature, and Creative Writing at Calhoun Community College in Huntsville, Alabama. This is his fourth collection of poetry: Travel for Agoraphobics, Distractions and Illusions, and Sitting up with the Dead.