He graduated from Colby College in 1980 and earned an MA in National Security Policy Studies at The George Washington University in 1985. From 1983 to 1994 he worked in and around the Pentagon. He now lives with his family in Chester, New Hampshire, where he directs the information technology department and teaches poetry at Chester College. His poems have appeared in The Formalist, First Things, The Dark Horse, Iambs & Trochees, Light and other journals. His first book of poetry, Too Much Explanation Can Ruin a Man was published in March 2005 and is now available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and direct from the publisher David Robert Books. For more information, please visit his website: www.robertwcrawford.com.