Ron Riekki's books include My Ancestors are Reindeer Herders
and I Am Melting in Extinction (Loyola University Maryland's
Apprentice House Press), Posttraumatic (Hoot 'n' Waddle), and U.P.
(Ghost Road Press). He's edited eight books, including And Here
(Michigan State University Press, Independent Publisher Book
Award), and The Way North (Wayne State University Press, Michigan
Notable Book). He's published poetry in Rattle, Poetry Northwest,
fiction in Threepenny Review, Bellevue Literary Review, nonfiction in
River Teeth, New Orleans Review, and more. Right now, Riekki's
listening to Sergei Rachmaninoff's The Isle of The Dead, Symphonic
Poem Op. 2.