Ed Pavlic's most recent books are But Here Are Small Clear Refractions (2009), prose and photos set in a secret theater of the "war on terror" amid islands off the coast of Kenya and Somalia, and Winners Have Yet to be Announced: A Song for Donny Hathaway (2008), an epic poem set in the life of the late soul singer. He is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia in Athens.