Charles Goodrich is the former director of Oregon State University’s Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word. He is the author of a collection of personal essays, The Practice of Home, and four books of poetry: Watering the Rhubarb, A Scripture of Crows, Going to Seed, and Insects of South Corvallis. Goodrich is also the coeditor of two anthologies: Forest Under Story and In the Blast Zone. He lives in Corvallis, Oregon.