Reginald Shepherd's five books of poetry, all published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, include Fata Morgana (2007) and Otherhood (2003), a finalist for the 2004 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He is the editor of The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries (Iowa, 2004). His essay collection, Orpheus in the Bronx, is forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press in 2008.