Jerry D. Mathes II is the author of the chapbook Fall in the Borderland and a poetry collection, The Journal West. He received Special Mentions for Fiction in The Pushcart Prize XXXI, XXXIV, and XXXV, and his work has appeared in the Best American and Best of the West anthologies. Mathes has worked at South Pole Station, Antarctica, as a cargo specialist, and taught the southernmost poetry workshop in the world. He received his MFA from the University of Idaho, Moscow.