James Byrne is a poet, editor, translator, and visual artist. His most recent poetry collections are Places You Leave (Arc Publications, 2022); The Caprices, a response to Francisco Goya’s Los Caprichos (Arc Publications, 2019); and Everything Broken Up Dances (Tupelo Press, 2015). His work featured in Ploughshares comes from his forthcoming collection of elegiac poems set in Death Valley, CA, to be published by Broken Sleep Books in 2022, entitled Of Breaking Glass.