Theodore Deppe was born in Duluth, Minnesota in 1950. He is a graduate of Vermont College's MFA in Writing program and holds degrees from Earlham and Berea Colleges. Ted Deppe is the author of Children of the Air (1990) and The Wanderer King (1996), both from Alice James Books. His Cape Clear: New and Selected Poems was published by Salmon Books in Ireland in 2002. He has been awarded two NEA grants and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Commision and the Connecticut Commission for the Arts. He has won a Pushcart Prize and is the present writer-in-residence at Phillips Academy in Andover.

“These beautiful, literate poems explore how we must relate to one another in order to survive. they examine the relationship of suffering and redemption; they propose the importance of imagination; and they say that continuing to care for one another in a dangerous world where grief and joy collide is indeed a risk, but it may be only answer”
—Money Review

“In these elegant and searing poems, Theodore Deppe gives voice to the full complexity of human character, creating a world that is charged and expansive. With cinematic vividness and stunning eloquence, these poems examine the tensions between hope and despair, responsibility and mystery—as if a sacred universe we were in danger of losing had been stayed at the moment of vanishing. The dramatic monologues are a triumph of the imagination.”
—Betsy Sholl