Kirk Glaser is a poet and prose writer whose work has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in publications including The San Francisco Chronicle, The Threepenny Review, Nimrod, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Catamaran. Awards for his work include a New Millennium Writings Contest Finalist, Richard Eberhart Poetry Award/Southeast Literary Review, Gertrude Stein Fiction Award Finalist, and University of California Poet Laureate Award. His poetry collection, The House That Fire Built, published by MadHat Press, was a finalist for the University of Tampa Press Award, Ashland Poetry Press Richard Snyder Publication Prize, and Word Works Press Washington Prize. A Teaching Professor at Santa Clara University, he serves as Director of the Creative Writing Program and Faculty Advisor to the Santa Clara Review. He earned his MA in Creative Writing and Ph.D. in American Literature at U.C. Berkeley and his BA at Dartmouth College. He is co-editor of the anthology, New California Writing 2013, Heyday.