Peter Stitt's Hard Roads Home: How I Found a Family in Mormonia was published in 2011 by Somondoco Press; his collection of creative nonfiction essays, Searching for Paradise, will be published by Tupelo Press in 2012. He holds a PhD from the University of North Carolina and has taught at the Universities of Minnesota, North Carolina, and Houston (where he was the founding administrator of the Program in Creative Writing), at Michigan Technological University, and at the Colleges of Middlebury and Gettysburg. His earlier books are The World's Hieroglyphic Beauty: Five American Poets, James Wright: The Heart and the Light (edited with Frank Graziano), and Uncertainty and Plenitude: Five Contemporary Poets. He is the Editor of The Gettysburg Review and teaches courses in American poetry.