T.J. Anderson III is an associate professor of English at Hollins University and was former Fulbright Scholar in Cairo, Egypt. His poetry has been published in the Sarasota Review of Poetry, Sulfur, lift, Callaloo, and Indiana Review.  He is the author of At Last Round Up (lift books, 1996) and  River to Cross (The Backwaters Press, 2009) and a critical book on jazz poetry Notes to Make the Sound Come Right: Four Innovators of Jazz Poetry was published in 2004 by University of Arkansas Press.