Linda Gregerson is the author of eight books of poetry and the winner of many awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Kingsley Tufts Award, an American of Academy of Arts and Letters Award, and a finalist nomination for the National Book Award. The New York Times calls Gregerson “a storyteller at heart,” and the Los Angeles Review of Books praises “her remarkable ability to make imagination feel appropriate.” Reviewing Prodigal: New and Selected Poems, The New Yorker described her work as “dauntless, serrated.” Her new collection, Canopy, will be published in 2022. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and elsewhere.Linda Gregerson is the Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.