Ken Weisner is a poet, teacher, and editor, living in Santa Cruz, California. He has published his work widely in national journals including The Antioch Review, Seneca Review, The Brooklyn Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, and others. His first full length collection, The Sacred Geometry of Pedestrians, was published in 2002 by Hummingbird Press. Weisner won numerous awards for his fifteen years as editor of Quarry West magazine, a national literary journal published out of Porter College at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is now a contributing editor at Red Wheelbarrow, De Anza College's literary journal. Born and raised in Oakland, Weisner has a B.A. from Oberlin College, an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers Workshop, and a Ph.D in American Literature from U.C. Santa Cruz, where he also taught writing for many years. For over a decade, he was active as a Poet-in-the-Schools throughout the Central California Coast through the poetry/consulting organization "Heart of the Word." Weisner now devotes his full teaching energies to the English Department at De Anza College in Cupertino. He is also a French horn player, a baseball lover, and the father of two teenage sons.