Allan Douglass Coleman writes poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction, makes music, photographs, and produces various other forms of visual art. His poetry and fiction have appeared in BlackWater Review, The Cape Rock, Creative Nonfiction, International Poetry Review, Lalitamba, Nimrod, Poetry Motel, Passager, Pudding, and Urban Desires. He can be found online at villaflorentine.us.  Theory of Relatives (after Einstein) was originally published in Into the Teeth of the Wind, Spring 2006.