Matthew Zapruder is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Story of a Poem, Father’s Day, and Why Poetry. He is editor-at-large at Wave Books, where he edits contemporary poetry, prose, and translations. From 2016–2017, he held the annually rotating position of editor of the Poem column for the New York Times Magazine, and was the editor of the anthology The Best American Poetry 2022. He teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing program at Saint Mary’s College of California, and lives in the Bay Area of Northern California.