David Hamilton is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Iowa, where he taught for nearly forty years. The author of A Certain Arc: Essays of Finding My Way (Ice Cube Books, prose),  Deep River: A Memoir of a Missouri Farm (University of Missouri Press, prose), The Least Hinge (Frith Press, poems), Ossabaw (Salt Publications, poems), and numerous uncollected essays, he edited The Iowa Review for a few decades and directed, for a few years, Iowa’s MFA Program in Nonfiction.