Steve Schild lives in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, with his wife Margaret. They have two grown sons, Jake and Sam. Schild, an emeritus faculty member at Saint Mary's University in Winona, Minnesota, has worked in farming, construction, factories, journalism and public relations. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, USA Today, the Minnesota Star Tribune and other newspapers. He has written four poetry collections (Invocation, These Humans, Eros in Autumn, and Gone Away from Crystal Valley). His poetry has also appeared in four anthologies and a number of literary magazines and won awards from the Midwest Independent Publishers Association, the league of Minnesota Poets, Viterbo University and Winona State University.