The Smoke of Horses (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781942683476)

Charles Rafferty is the author of five previous collections of poetry, one collection of short stories, and two poetry chapbooks. His most recent poetry collection is The Unreachable Dog (Steel Toe Books, 2016). He is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism. His short stories have been collected in Saturday Night at Magellan's, and his poems have appeared in The New Yorker, O, Oprah Magazine, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Cincinnati Review, TriQuarterly, Quarterly West, Massachusetts Review, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily. He lives in Sandy Hook, CT, where he works at a technology research firm, directs the MFA program at Albertus Magnus College, and is on the faculty of the Westport Writers' Workshop.