Simmons B. Buntin is the author of two collections of poems, Bloom (2010) and Riverfall (2005), and a book of sustainable community case studies, Unsprawl: Remixing Spaces as Places (2013). He is also the founding editor-in-chief of Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments, an award-winning journal publishing since 1998. His poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in Orion, High Desert Journal, Kyoto Review, North American Review, and elsewhere, and he lives in the community of Civano with his wife, two daughters, a Russian tortoise, albino milksnake, and little white dog.

Photograph by Deirdre Calhoun