John Hoppenthaler is the author of three books of poetry, all published by Carnegie Mellon University Press: Domestic Garden (forthcoming, 2015), Anticipate the Coming Reservoir (2008), and Lives of Water (2003). He is the coeditor, along with Kazim Ali, of This-World Company (University of Michigan Press, 2012), a volume of essays on the poetry of Jean Valentine. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, The Literary Review, Subtropics, and Copper Nickel, as well as many other journals, anthologies, and textbooks.  He edits A Poetry Congeries and curates the Guest Editor feature for Connotation Press: An Online Artifact. He is an associate professor of creative writing and literature at East Carolina University.  

Photo by Andy Bowen