David Alpaugh has published poetry in more than 100 journals—from Able Muse to Poetry to Zyzzyva—and is one of 50 contemporary poets included by Dana Gioia in California Poetry from the Gold Rush to the Present. His collection Counterpoint won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize from Story Line Press, and he has been a finalist for Poet Laureate of California. His "double title" poems appear or are forthcoming in California Quarterly, Exit 13, Gargoyle, The Hypertexts, Mudlark, Spillway, X-Peri, and The American Journal of Poetry.