Will Barnes teaches middle school science and language arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His manuscript about text, memory and landscape in the west is called The Ledgerbook. Poems from this collection have been published in the CutBank Review, the Eleventh Muse, the Anthology for the Academy of American Poets Prize, and Taos Journal of Poetry & Art. He is also is Essay & Review Editor for Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art.