Michael Montlack's third poetry collection COSMIC IDIOT is forthcoming from Saturnalia. He is the editor of the Lambda Finalist essay anthology My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them (University of Wisconsin Press). His work has appeared in Poetry Daily, Prairie Schooner, Cincinnati Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Cortland Review, Epoch and other journals. This year he was awarded a MacDowell residency. He lives in NYC and teaches poetry workshops at NYU and CUNY City College.