Gregory Lawless is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the winner of the 2014 Red Mountain Poetry Prize and 2013 Orphic Prize for Poetry. His poems have appeared in Third Coast, The Journal, Pleiades, The National Poetry Review, Salamander, Sixth Finch, Verse Daily, Best of the Net, and many others. He is the author of I THOUGHT I WAS NEW HERE (BlazeVOX, 2009), Dreamburgh, Pennsylvania (Dream Horse Press, forthcoming), and the chapbook Foreclosure (Back Pages Publishers, 2013).