Cameron Aveson lives in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, east of Fresno, California, with his wife and one-year-old daughter. For the past 20 summers he had been constructing and maintaining trails in the wilderness of Kings Canyon National Park. His work has been published in Crab Creek Review, Monkey Puzzle Magazine, The Meadow, and Meta4magazine.

In answer to our question of why he writes, Cameron responded:

“There’s a moment that can happen during the writing-revision process for me when it feels like I’m not just pushing the words around the page but when, collectively, they start to push back. At that point it feels like I enter into a different relationship with the poem, when it is working on me as much as I am working on it. I love that moment, when a poem wakes up and starts making demands, challenging me and asking questions. It’s unsettling because I’m not sure where the writing is going to end up, but it’s much more dynamic and gratifying.”

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