Mark Thalman's Catching the Limit is being published in 2008 by Bedbug Press: Fairweather Books and will be part of their Northwest Poetry Series. His work has appeared in Carolina Quarterly, CutBank, Many Mountains Moving, Natural Bridge, Pennsylvania Review, Sou'wester, and Texas Review among others. He received his MFA from the University of Oregon and has been teaching English in the public schools for the last 25 years. He has been a Poet-in-the-Schools for the Oregon Arts Commission, an Assistant Poetry Editor of the Northwest Review, and a member of the Portland Poetry Festival. He resides in Forest Grove, Oregon.