Apology for The Book of Creatures

Dan Beachy-Quick

A brief biography

Dan Beachy-Quick is the author of four books of poems: North True South Bright, Spell, Mulberry, and most recently, This Nest, Swift Passerine. Collaborating with the poet Srikanth Reddy, he also worked on the double sonnet sequence in Mobius Crowns. A book of interlinked meditations on Melville’s Moby-Dick, A Whaler’s Dictionary, was published in the fall of 2008 by Milkweed Editions. He edits poetry for the journal A Public Space. He currently teaches in the MFA Writing Program at Colorado State University, and will be a visiting writer at The Iowa Writer’s Workshop for Spring 2010.