Patrick Donnelly is an Associate Editor at Four Way Books, a non-profit press in New York City (www.fourwaybooks.com). He is in the MFA Program in Poetry at Warren Wilson College. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Quarterly West, Beloit Poetry Journal, Sarasota Poetry Theatre Press, Heliotrope, Art & Understanding, and POZ. He is a curator of the reading series at the Ear Inn, and Program Assistant of the CCS reading series, sponsored by Four Way Books at Civic Center Synagogue. His poem "Letter to friends who aren’t dying" was nominated by Quarterly West for the 2000 Pushcart Prize. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.