Trane DeVore is the author of Dust Habit (Avec Books,, 2005) and series/mnemonic (Avec Books, 1999) and his poetry has appeared in numerous journals. He graduated from Sonoma State University in 1993 and is currently finishing his graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley. In 2005 he will begin teaching at Osaka University in the department of Language and Culture. In his spare time he takes photographs, draws comics, and plays the clarinet.