Rohrer has said that he was a diligent student who finished his work quickly to make time for reading and writing.
Rohrer worked as a night janitor at the University of Iowa's Van Allen astronomy building while writing the poems.
[3]: back inside cover In 2005, his collection A Green Light was shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize.
"[4]: back cover Rohrer wrote the poems for The Sky Contains the Plans in the "hypnagogic state" between sleeping and waking.
I began paying attention to the voices and the phrases and sentences I heard, and realized they were weird—and not weird in a dreamy way or surreal; they were sort of boring.