If We Are the Forest the Animals Dream

Patrick Cahill's The Machinery of Sleep (Sixteen Rivers Press) appeared in 2020. His poems have twice won the Central Coast Writers Award. A cofounder and editor of Ambush Review, a San Francisco-based literary and arts journal, he was also a contributing editor for the anthology Digging Our Poetic Roots: Poems from Sonoma County (WordTemple Press). He received his PhD in the History of Consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and wrote a study of Whitman and visual experience in nineteenth-century America. Portions of this work have appeared in The Daguerreian Annual and Left Curve. Cahill lives in San Francisco, where he volunteers with San Francisco Recreation and Parks in habitat restoration.