Justin Gardiner’s first book of creative nonfiction, Beneath the Shadow: Legacy and Longing in the Antarctic, is forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press. His poetry has appeared in The Missouri Review, Quarterly West, Zone 3, and ZYZZYVA. He is the recipient of the 2012 Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency, as well as the 2012 Warren Wilson Larry Levis Stipend. Gardiner teaches English and creative writing at Auburn University.