Sean Hill is the author of two poetry collections, Dangerous Goods, awarded the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor, named one of the Ten Books All Georgians Should Read by the Georgia Center for the Book. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University and a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems and essays have appeared in Harvard Review, Orion, Oxford American, Tin House and in nearly three dozen anthologies. Hill has served as the director of the Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference at Bemidji State University since 2012. He is a consulting editor at Broadsided Press and has taught at several universities. Hill lives with his family in southwest Montana and is an assistant professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Montana.