David Rigsbee is the author of over twenty books and chapbooks, including twelve previous full-length collections of poems. In addition, he has published critical works on Carolyn Kizer and Joseph Brodsky, whom he also translated. He has co-edited two anthologies, including Invited Guest: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Southern Poetry, as well as a critical collection, Not Alone in My Dancing: Essays and Reviews. His work has appeared in AGNI, The American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, and many others. He has received a Pushcart Prize, two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a NEH summer fellowship to the American Academy in Rome. His other awards include a Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown fellowship, the Virginia Commission on the Arts literary fellowship, the Djerassi Foundation and Jentel Foundation residencies, and an Award from the Academy of American Poets. His translation of Dante’s Paradiso has just been published by Salmon Poetry, and his Watchman in the Knife Factory: New and Selected Poems will be published in 2024 by Black Lawrence Press. He lives in the Hudson Valley of New York.