Matthew Zapruder is the author of four collections of poetry: American Linden, Come on All You Ghosts, Sun Bear, and The Pajamaist, which won the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in many publications, including, Paris Review, the New Republic, the New Yorker, and McSweeney’s, The Believer. The recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives in Oakland, where he is an editor at Wave Books and a member of the Core Faculty at the MFA in creative writing at St. Mary’s College of California.