Adrian Kien grew up in Elko, NV and Missoula, MT. He received his MFA from Boise State University. His most recent publication is the chapbook, Nevada Gangue from Open Country Press. He is also the author of The Caress is a Letter of Instruction and several chapbooks and collaborations with his wife, the painter, Kelly Packer. Most recently his poems have appeared in Hick Poetics, An Anthology of Contemporary American Rural Poetry. He has taught in the Writers in the Schools Program, Boise State University and Montana Tech. He currently lives in Butte, MT where he is a reference librarian at Montana Tech.