Brian Blanchfield is the author of three books of poetry and prose, most recently A Several World, which received the 2014 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Proxies—a collection of essays half cultural close reading and half dicey autobiography—which won a 2016 Whiting Award in Nonfiction. His poetry and nonfiction have appeared in Harper's, BOMB, The Oxford American, The Paris Review, Brick, Lana Turner, Conjunctions, and other magazines and anthologies. He teaches creative writing at the University of Idaho and in the Bennington Writing Seminars, and lives in Moscow, Idaho.