Jonathan Katz, Ph.D., is Professor of Practice in Cultural Policy and Arts Management at George Mason University. He has directed the state arts agency in Kansas, the children’s museum in Denver, and the graduate arts management program at the U. of Illinois-Springfield. As CEO of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA), he guided an association whose members currently invest over $500 million of public funds annually in artistic and cultural activities, he co-founded the nation’s Arts Education Partnership, and he helped create Poetry Out Loud. He consults extensively on strategic planning and leadership development, chairs the board of American Poetry Review, serves as Strategic Advisor to the Innovation Collaborative: Networking Arts, Sciences, and Humanities Education, and lives in beautiful Takoma Park, MD, with his muse, Terri Moreland. In addition to Lottery of Intimacies, C&R Press has published his chapbook, Love Undefined, and full-length collection, Objects in Motion.