Philip Terman is the author of What Survives (Sow's Press, 1993), The House of Sages (Mammoth Books, 1998) and the forthcoming Book of the Unbroken Days (Mammoth Books, 2002). His poems and essays have appeared in many journals, including Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The New England Review, and The Gettysburg Review. He is the recipient of The Anna Davidson Award for Poems on the Jewish Experience, the Sow's Press Chapbook Prize, and the Kenneth Patchen Award. He teaches creative writing and literature at Clarion University of Pennsylvania.