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 been featured in American Life in Poetry, Best American Poetry, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. He is Associate Editor of Literary Matters, and he hosts the poetry podcast SLEERICKETS. He lives in North Carolina with his wife and daughters.