About the Author

Craig Morgan Teicher is the author of two previous books of poetry: Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems, winner of the 2007 Colorado Prize for Poetry; and To Keep Love Blurry; as well as Cradle Book: Stories and Fables. He is the editor of Once and for All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz. He is a prolific book critic, writing regularly for The New York Times, The LA Times, NPR, and other venues. He has taught at NYU, the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Princeton, and elsewhere, and lives in New Jersey with his wife, the poet Brenda Shaughnessy, and their children.