Matthew Zapruder is the author most recently of the poetry collections I Love Hearing Your Dreams (Scribner, 2024), and How to Continue (The Economy Press, 2025). His previous books also include Why Poetry (Ecco/Harper Collins) and Story of a Poem (Unnamed). He is editor-at-large at Wave Books, where he edits contemporary poetry, prose, and translations. He has taught several short courses for the Writers’ Annex at the Community of Writers including on W.S. Merwin and Sylvia Plath. He teaches in the MFA in creative writing at Saint Mary’s College of California, and plays music with both The Figments and We Are Leaves. matthewzapruder.com