Michael DaleyMichael Daley, who was born and raised in Dorchester, Massachusetts, entered a religious order as a teenager and upon returning to the world, was wild in the streets, protesting war and imperialism. He traveled the US on freight trains and by hitchhiing and worked at a series of depressing jobs until joining a tree-planting crew on the Olympic Peninsula and helping to found Empty Bowl Press. He later became a teacher at Mount Vernon High School in Skagit County and is now retired. He and his wife and son spent a Fulbright year in Hungary. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts and an MFA from the University of Washington. In addition to the Fulbright, he's received awards from Seattle Arts Commission, Washington State Arts Commission, The Institute for the Arts in Boston, Bumbershoot, Fessenden Foundation, National Endowment of the Humanities, Artist Trust, and The Poets House Trust. He lives near Deception Pass in Washington. He is the author of BORN WITH (Dos Madres Press, 2020), OF A FEATHER (Empty Bowl, 2015), MOONLIGHT IN THE REDEMPTIVE FOREST (Pleasure Boat Studio, 2010), WAY OUT THERE: LYRICAL ESSAYS (Aequitas Books, 2006), and ORIGINAL SIN (Pleasure Boat Studio, 2000). Read More Read Less