Jared Smith is the author of 14 books of poetry, 2 CDs, and stage productions in New York and Chicago. He has served on the Editorial Boards of Home Planet News, The New York Quarterly, Turtle Island Quarterly, and The Pedestal Magazine, as well as on the Board of Directors of literary and arts non-profits in New York, Illinois, and Colorado. Jared has taught at New York University, La Guardia Community College, and Illinois Institute of Technology. He has also worked as Vice President of a consulting company, Associate Director of Education and Applied Technology Research at Institute of Gas Technology; Special Advisor to Argonne National Laboratory; and as a technical advisor to The White House under President Clinton. He lives in Colorado, where he spends much of his time in a rustic log cabin in Roosevelt National Forest.