Joshua Marie Wilkinson’s Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk won the Iowa Poetry Prize in 2005. His other poetry collections include Selenography and The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth, among others. With Christina Mengert, he edited 12 × 12: Conversations in 21st-Century Poetry and Poetics (Iowa, 2009). He is an assistant professor of English at Loyola University Chicago.

Photo credit: Maria Svalina