About the Poet
Ray Lacina is a Professor at Delta College near Saginaw, Michigan, where he teaches writing and a variety of literature courses. He embraced Islam in 1989. He’s written all of his life, starting with his first poem in the third grade ("I like birds/and birds like me/but I live in a house/and they live in a tree"). Over the years he’s moved on from ornithology to exploring faith and the power of beauty to pierce the mundane in his poetry, as well as to write fiction, both speculative and mainstream. He lives in Michigan with his wife and son.