Roger Armbrust formerly served as national news editor for Back Stage magazine in New York City, where he also taught a professional writing course at New York University. His poems have appeared in New York Quarterly, Chelsea, Icarus, and Delaware Poetry Review. Previous publications include a book, How to Survive (August House Publishers), and a chapbook, Final Grace (Birch Brook Press). He now lives in his hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas, where he is editor-in-chief of the new Our National Conversation series published by Parkhurst Brothers, Inc., Publishers.