C. S. Giscombe is the author of several books of poetry, including Giscome Road and Here, both of which are available from Dalkey Archive Press. He has also published a memoir entitled Into and Out of Dislocation. He is the editor of Mixed Blood, a poetry journal, and teaches at the University of California at Berkeley.

"Recently, the examination of place has become an important theme in American literature; here it is carried out in verse. Giscombe visits sites in northern Canada named for relative John Robert Giscome, a 19th-century Jamaican miner and explorer. His journey, though, is as much interior as exterior, resulting in poems that are at once meditative and visually stunning." -- Library Journal