Ralph Sneeden’s poems and essays have appeared in AGNI, The American Poetry Review, The Common, Ecotone, Harvard Review, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, The New Republic, Slate, Southwest Review, The Surfer’s Journal, and many other magazines. The title poem from his book, Evidence of the Journey (Harmon Blunt, 2007), received the Friends of Literature Prize from Poetry magazine. Born in Los Angeles, Calif. he teaches at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, and has been a fellow at MacDowell.