A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, Brian Teare is the author of seven critically acclaimed books of poetry, including Doomstead Days, winner of the Four Quartets Prize, and Poem Bitten by a Man, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award. A selected essays, Textual Preference, will be out from Nightboat in 2027. A Professor of Poetry at the University of Virginia, Teare lives in Charlottesville, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books. brianteare.net