Owen McLeod’s debut collection, Dream Kitchen, won the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry. His second poetry collection, Before After, will be published by Saturnalia Books in 2023. His poems appear in Copper Nickel, Massachusetts Review, Missouri Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, The Southern Review and elsewhere, and his work has been supported by a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He is a professor of philosophy at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.