Doug Anderson's memoir, Keep Your Head Down, was published by W.W. Norton in 2009. He has published two award winning books of poetry: The Moon Reflected Fire, which won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Blues for Unemployed Secret Police, which received a grant from the Academy of American Poets. He is at work on another book of poems and a novel. He teaches in the Pacific University of Oregon MFA Program and at the University of Connecticut.