Keith Althaus is the author of three poetry collections, Rival Heavens, Ladder of Hours, and Cold Storage, which won the 2016 Off the Grid Poetry Prize. He has also received a Pushcart Prize and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Massachusetts Foundation of the Arts. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Poetry, and Ploughshares, among others. In 1969, he was one of the first Writing Fellows at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He lives on Cape Cod with his wife, the artist Susan Baker.