Marc Malandra serves as a Professor of English at Biola University where he has taught various courses in American literature and writing. His short essay, “‘Moss Gathering’ and Roethke’s Romantic Child of Nature” appears in A Field Guide to Theodore Roethke (Ohio University Press 2021). His poetry has been published in such journals as Puerto del Sol,Poetry Northwest, Orange Coast Review, and Zocalo among approximately forty other venues.