Dr Devon Wootten is a faculty member at Whitman College. He holds a Masters of Fine Arts in poetry from the University of Montana and a PhD in Comparative from the University of Iowa. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Experimental Writing, Fence, and LIT, among many others. During his time as a Fulbright Scholar, Dr Wootten will teach a poetry course at NUI Galway and begin a manuscript of place-based poems.