Eliot Schain’s poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Santa 
Monica Review, Another Chicago Magazine, and Miramar, among others journals, as 
well as in two anthologies: The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay 
Watershed and Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California.  His 
books include American Romance from Zeitgeist Press and Westering Angels from Small 
Poetry Press. His newest collection The Distant Sound was published by Sixteen Rivers 
Press and has recently been released as an audio recording, a collaboration with guitarist 
Harrison Flynn, which is available on most music streaming services.  He has served as 
Program Director for the Poetry Society of America, taught high school, and now works 
as a psychotherapist.  He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, Mary D’Elia.