Michael Waters’s recent books include Caw (BOA Editions, 2020), The Dean of Discipline (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), Celestial Joyride (BOA Editions, 2016), and the coedited anthologies Border Lines: Poems of Migration (Knopf, 2020) and Reel Verse: Poems About the Movies (Knopf, 2019). Darling Vulgarity (BOA Editions, 2006) was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Recipient of five Pushcart Prizes and Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, and Fulbright fellowships, Waters lives without a cell phone in Ocean, NJ.