Peter Conners is author of the memoir, Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead (Da Capo Press, 2009). His other books include the prose poetry collection Of Whiskey and Winter (White Pine Press, 2008) and the novella Emily Ate the Wind (Marick Press, 2007). His next poetry collection, The Crows Were Laughing in their Trees, will be published by White Pine Press in spring 2011. Conners is the publisher of BOA Editions, a Rochester-based Pulitzer-Prize- and National-Book-Award-winning publishing house.