Douglas Black is Collection Development Librarian at Northern Michigan University, after serving as reference librarian at Nova Southeastern University and reference/interlibrary-loan librarian at Amherst College. He holds an AB in English from Middlebury College, an MA in English from the University of New Hampshire, and an MS in Library & Information Science from Simmons College. When he’s not in the library, he’s usually sailing his antique sloop Selkie on Lake Superior.