Todd French lives in California with his family. His interests include poetry, fiction, history, art, film and music, and birdwatching. This is his fifth collection of poetry following his summer 2022 volume, Sad Superpower. He has started to work on a sixth collection: Dreams, Nightmares, Sunrises and Sunsets. Current projects include a short novel titled The Early Retirement of Sheriff Anselm. Favorite authors and influences include poets Ezra Pound, Billy Collins, Jill Pelaez Baumgaertner, John Steinbeck, Anthony Doerr, Cormac McCarthy, Richard Monaco, Dean R. Koontz and William Peter Blatty.