Born and educated in Fresno, California, David St. John is the author of Prism (2002), Study for the World’s Body: New and Selected Poems (1994), No Heaven (1985), and Hush (1976), among other books of verse.  He holds an MFA from the University of Iowa, and has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and the Prix de Rome in Literature.  He teaches at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.