James G. Piatt earned his BS and MA from California State Polytechnic University and his doctorate from Brigham Young University. He lives with Sandy, his wife of 57 years, in Santa Ynez, California. She has always been his inspiration, his muse, and his vanity barometer. He also feels she is a much better poet than he. He spends much of his summer time alongside a lazy pond, reading poetry, listening to classical music and jazz, penning poems, and writing short stories and novels. His first novel, The Ideal Society, a science fiction novel, was recently published on October 1, 2012. A great number of literary magazines have published over 235 of his poems in the past three years.