Bryan Hendrix is an artist and writer from Columbus, Georgia currently living in Blue Ridge, Georgia. He was the recipient of the Georgia Poetry Society’s Byron Herbert Reece International Award and was published in The Reach of Song. He has illustrated three children’s books and his art has appeared in various other books and national publications. During a discussion of the word ‘ballhooting,’ an old lumberjack term for sending logs down a hill, Bryan’s wife, Lisa, said, “So you could go ballhootin’, ass over teakettle, into the ravine?” and that inspired the poem.