Joshua Weiner is the author of three books of poetry, most recently, The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish, and the editor of At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn (all from University of Chicago Press). Berlin Notebook, reporting about the refugee situation in Europe (Los Angeles Review of Books, 2016) and Everything I Do I Do Good: Trumpoems (Dispatches against the Poetry Wars, 2018) appeared as digital editions. His translation of Nelly Sachs’s 1959 volume Flight & Metamorphosis was published by Farrar Straus Giroux in 2022. His poems and essays have appeared in Best American Poetry, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, American Scholar, New Republic, Washington Post, Yale Review, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. The recipient of Whiting, Rome Prize, and Guggenheim fellowships, he teaches at University of Maryland and lives in Washington D.C.