John Witte is the author of Loving the Days (Wesleyan University Press, 1978), The Hurtling (Orchises Press, 2005), Second Nature (University of Washington Press, 2008), and Disquiet (University of Washington Press, 2015). For thirty years he was the editor of Northwest Review, as well as numerous books, including The Collected Poems of Hazel Hall (Oregon State University Press, 2000). He has been the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.