Eric Rensberger grew up in Elkhart County, Indiana, and has lived for most of his life in Monroe County. He has been involved in Bloomington’s local poetry community since arriving there in 1979. He is the author of several chapbooks and has been published in anthologies of Bloomington area poets, as well as appearing in local or regional magazines. He has self-published through his website. That site is the primary home for his ongoing chronological series Account of My Days.