About the Author

Matthew Zapruder holds degrees from Amherst College, UC Berkeley, and the University of Massachusetts. He is the author of COME ON ALL YOU GHOSTS (Copper Canyon Press, 2010); THE PAJAMAIST (Copper Canyon Press, 2006), which won the William Carlos Williams Award and was honored by Library Journal with a "Best Poetry Book of the Year" listing; and AMERICAN LINDEN (Tupelo Press, 2002). He lives in San Francisco and is an editor at Wave Books.