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Ty Bouldin discovered his interest in the arts when he began taking art lessons in the first grade. Since that early introduction to the visual arts, he has continued to paint and draw, in high school adding music and writing as additional forms of creative expression. Born in Charleston, West Virginia in 1947, he was educated in the state, earning a BA in English from Concord College in 1969. That year, his first chapbook, Collected Poems of An Anonymous Young Poet, was published by Hiram Poetry Review. He was granted an MA in English from Miami University in 1971 and taught for 16 years at West Virginia State College. He was awarded a PhD in Communication and Rhetoric from RPI and accepted a position at The University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, teaching and co-administering the Writing Program. He retired in 2003, and he and his wife returned to their 25-acre farmstead in West Virginia where they live with their dogs and abundant wildlife. This is Ty Bouldin’s fifth book published with Outskirts Press.