Ronald Wallace’s twelve books of poetry, fiction, and criticism include Long for This World (2003), For a Limited Time Only (2008), ?The Uses of Adversity (1998), and Time's Fancy (1994), all from the University of Pittsburgh Press. He is Codirector of the Creative Writing program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and editor of the University of Wisconsin Press Poetry Series. He divides his time between Madison and a forty-acre farm in Bear Valley, Wisconsin.