Bart Rawlinson is a 2015 Artist in Residence at Arteles in Hämeenkyrö, Finland. He received the 2013 William Matthews Poetry Prize. He is also the recipient of the Joseph Henry Jackson Award, the Eugene Ruggles Poetry Prize, the Robert Browning Prize for Dramatic Monologue, among other awards. His work appears in Asheville Poetry Review, Assaracus, New Millennuem Writings, Santa Clara Review, The Rumpus, Poetry Flash and other magazines. He is Associate Professor, English at Mendocino College in northern California.