A Life for a Life

Steve Hallett is a British-Australian-American poet and professor of horticulture at Purdue University, Indiana, where he studies and teaches ecology, international development, and sustainable agriculture. He directs the university's sustainable food and farming systems program and its student farm. Steve is the author of over fifty research articles and book chapters, and the author of two books: Life without Oil: Why we Must Shift to a New Energy Future (Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY; 2011) and The Efficiency Trap: Finding Our Way to a New Energy Future (Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY: 2013). Poetry is a new medium for Steve, through which he continues to explore themes of social and environmental justice, and humankind's relationship to the natural world. His poetry has been published in Bitter Oleander, Roanoke Review, Stillwater Review, Blueline, Plainsongs, and New Limestone Review. A Life for a Life is his first book of poems.