About Cloudbank Cloudbank Books was launched in 2000 with the publication of Millennial Spring: Eight New Oregon Poets, an anthology of contemporary verse, edited by Peter Sears and Michael Malan. About Cloudbank's editors: Peter Sears’ latest book is Green Diver. For ordering information, see our Home Page. Peter is the author of two other books of poems, also available from Cloudbank Books: The Brink and Tour, New & Selected Poems. He received his M.F.A. from the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa and is the 1999 winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Contest. He currently teaches in the M.F.A. program at Pacific University. Michael Malan’s poems and stories have been published in Epoch, Hawaii Review, Midwest Quarterly, Wisconsin Review, Oregon Literary Review, Rosebud, Rhino, The Christian Science Monitor, and elsewhere. He was a finalist in the New Letters 2008 Literary Awards for Writers.