Peter Weltner has published five previous books of fiction, including The Risk of His Music and How the Body Prays, five poetry chapbooks, among them The One-Winged Body and Water's Eye (both in collaboration with the artist Galen Garwood), and six full length collections of poetry, News from the World at My Birth: A History, The Outerlands, To the Final Cinder, Stone Altars, Late Summer Storm in Early Winter (with photographs and paintings by Galen Garwood), and most recently The Light of the Sun Become Sea. He and his husband live in San Francisco by the ocean.