Peter Burghardt lives in Oakland, where he works as a poetry editor and book designer for Omnidawn Publishing, and co-publishes the letterpress book-arts imprint speCt books, and speCt’s poetry journal, OAR. He was selected by the Poetry Foundation as a 2014 finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, and his work has been published or is forthcoming from such journals Witness: The Magazine of the Black Mountain Institute, The Laurel Review, Tammy, and BlazeVox.