Matthew Buckley Smith is the author of Midlife, winner of the 2021 Richard Wilbur Award, and Dirge for an Imaginary World, winner of the 2011 Able Muse Book Award. His poems have appeared in AGNI, Commonweal, Harvard Review, Subtropics, and Threepenny Review, and been featured in numerous anthologies and poetry series, including American Life in Poetry, Best American Poetry, and Poetry Daily. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Apartment Therapy, BULL, Cincinnati Review, Day One, Fairy Tale Review, Hopkins Review, and The Walrus. He hosts the NSFW books podcast SLEERICKETS.