Kevin Rashid was for 19 years a groundskeeper at Wayne State University. He has recently moved inside to become curriculum coordinator of Wayne State's Honors Program. He teaches creative writing at WSU, to the Poetry Club at Cass Tech High School for Inside/Out and at Detroit Southwest Mental Health's Outpatient Clinic for The Writer's Voice. He has published in several books and journals including The Academy of American Poet's New Voices1989-1998, Abandon Automobile: Detroit City 2001, The Maxis Review 2002, and Arab Detroit: From Margins to Mainstream.