Dave Brinks lives in New Orleans along with his poet wife Megan Burns and their two children, Blaise and Mina. His recent collection, The Caveat Onus, is available from the publisher www.lavenderink.org. Brinks is the editor of YAWP: a Journal of Poetry & Art and Trembling Pillow Press, as well as director of the renown 17 Poets! Reading Series at The Gold Mine in the French Quarter.