The Fears

Long-listed for the Pulitzer Prize for How He Loved Them (2018)

Poems and prior collections recognized by The New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, The Poetry Society of America, and The Academy of American Poets

Lannan Foundation Fellow

Themes of death and grief are universal and his poetry, while profound, is written in language that is easy to access and comprehend

Winner of the Julie Suk Award for How He Loved Them (2018)  

Potential audiences: Readers from the Midwest or Ohio; readers who have experienced the loss of a parent to cancer; fans of literature about father-son relationships, Roman Empire, and/or Greek mythology and epic; readers interested in metafiction and the intersection between science and poetry