Lee Herrick is a poet, professor, and author of This Many Miles from Desire (2007) and Gardening Secrets of the Dead (2012). His poems have been published widely in literary magazines and anthologies, and he is a frequent panelist and guest poet/speaker around the country. He recently joined the leadership team of the Adoption Museum Project, based in Berkeley, CA. He teaches at Fresno City College and in the low-residency MFA Program at Sierra Nevada College.