David Trinidad is the author of Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems (2011) and Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera (2013), both published by Turtle Point Press. Trinidad’s next book, Notes on a Past Life, is forthcoming from BlazeVOX [books] in 2016. He is the editor of A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos (Nightboat Books, 2011). Trinidad is a professor of creative writing and poetry at Columbia College.  

Photo by Alyssa Lynee, 2015