W. Todd Kaneko is the author of This is How the Bone Sings (Black Lawrence Press, 2020) and the Dead Wrestler Elegies (New Michigan Press, 2021) and co-author with Amorak Huey of Poetry: A Writer's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018). A Kundiman fellow, he is originally from Seattle, Washington, and now lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan where he teaches creative writing at Grand Valley State University.