Theodore Zachary Cotler is the author of a novel, Ghost at the Loom, a critical monograph, Elegies for Humanism, and three books of poetry, House with a Dark Sky Roof, Sonnets to the Humans, and Supplice. His awards include the Colorado Prize, the Sawtooth Prize, the Amy Clampitt Residency, and the Ruth Lilly Fellowship. His poems appear in Poetry, Paris Review, the New York Times, and other journals. He is a founding editor of The Winter Anthology, www.winteranthology.com