Jon Ballard is a poet as well as an occasional instructor of literature and writing at Oakland Community College in Royal Oak, Michigan. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Soundings East, Boxcar Poetry Review, Rock Salt Plum Review, Poetry Midwest, Blue Earth Review, The Valparaiso Poetry Review, and The MacGuffin, among others. His first chapbook, Lonesome, is forthcoming in 2007 from Pudding House Publications. He currently lives with his wife and two daughters in Mexico City, Mexico.