Hugh Steinberg's poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming in Crowd, VeRT, Volt, Spork, Slope, Fence, No Tell Motel, and Forklift, Ohio. He is the author of two chapbooks, In the Attic of the House of the Dead (Chax Press, 2000) and While the Thunder Lasted I Felt Like God (Light & Dust, 1997). He received an MFA from the University of Arizona and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. A recipient of an NEA creative writing fellowship in poetry, Steinberg teaches at the California College of the Arts and is the editor of Freehand, a journal devoted to handwritten work. He lives in Berkeley.