Carl Adamshick is a two-time Oregon Book Award winner for his poetry collections Curses and Wishes (LSU Press, 2010) and Saint Friend (McSweeney's, 2014). His work has been published in Harvard Review, American Poetry Review, The Missouri Review, and Narrative. Carl has received an Oregon Literary Fellowship and residencies from the Vermont Studio Center and the Lannan Foundation. Carl is a cofounder of Tavern Books and lives in Portland, Oregon.