John Casteen teaches at Sweet Briar College and serves on the editorial staff of the Virginia Quarterly Review. He has contributed poems to the Paris Review, Shenandoah, Ploughshares, and other journals. His first book, Free Union, was published in the VQR Poetry Series in 2009.

Books by John Casteen:

Other poems on the web by John Casteen:
"Silver"
"Murmur"
Four poems
"Shad Roe"

John Casteen's Website.