AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY:

Dave Seter is a civil engineer and poet, and the author of Don’t Sing to Me of Electric Fences (Cherry Grove Collections, 2021) and Night Duty (Main Street Rag, 2010). He is also a translator of contemporary Lithuanian poetry. His own poetry is informed by his environmental career protecting drinking water in the Eastern United States and healing the scars of mineral extraction in the Western United States.

His poems have won the KNOCK Ecolit Prize, received third place in the William Matthews competition, and received honorable mention in the Paterson Literary Review's Allen Ginsberg competition. He is the recipient of two Pushcart nominations. He has been an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, and has served on the Board of Directors of Marin Poetry Center. He earned his undergraduate degree in civil engineering from Princeton University and his graduate degree in humanities from Dominican University of California. Born in Chicago, he now lives in Sonoma County, California.