Carl Adamshick is the author of Curses and Wishes (LSU Press, 2011), Saint Friend (McSweeney’s, 2014), Footprints (Wiesedruck, 2017), Receipt (Lost Horse Press, 2017), and Birches (Four Way Books, 2019). He has won a number of awards, including the 1998 Oregon Literary Arts Award, and the Oregon Book Award in 2011 and 2015. He has had writing residencies at Lewis and Clark College, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Lannan Foundation. His writing has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Harvard Review, and The Columbia Journal. He works as an Editor at Tavern Books.