Teddy Macker teaches in the Writing Program and the College of Creative Studies. Among his honors is the Reginald S. Tickner Fellowship of the Gilman School in Baltimore. His work appears (or will appear) in the Antioch Review, Orion, The Massachusetts Review, New Letters, The Sun, The River Teeth Reader Anthology, Seneca Review, and elsewhere. He lives in the Painted Cave community in the Santa Ynez Mountains.