Cedar Sigo was raised on the Suquamish Reservation in the Pacific Northwest and studied at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. He is the author of eight books and pamphlets of poetry, including All This Time, Stranger in Town, Expensive Magic, two editions of Selected Writings, and most recently the Bagley Wright Lecture Series book Guard the Mysteries. He has taught at the University of Washington, Bard College, Naropa University, and the Institute of American Indian Arts. He lives in Lofall, Washington.