Ian U Lockaby is the author of Defensible Space/if a crow— (Omnidawn, 2024), A Seam of Electricity (Ghost Proposal, 2025), and Blue Phlox in a Bad Cornfield (Greying Ghost, 2026). His translations of Mexican poet Diana Garza and Chilean poet Carlos Cociña have been published as chapbooks from Carrion Bloom Books and Cardboard House Press. His work has been published in FENCE, West Branch, Washington Square Review, Circumference, etc. He edits the online journal mercury firs, co-edits the chapbook press LUCIUS, and lives in New Orleans.