Kevin Prufer is the author of ten books, including the novel Sleepaway (Acre Books, 2024) and the poetry collections The Fears (Copper Canyon Press, 2023); Churches (Four Way Books, 2014), named one of the ten best books of 2014 by The New York Times; How He Loved Them (Four Way, 2018), which was longlisted for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and received the Julie Suk Award for the best poetry book from an American literary press; Churches (2014), In a Beautiful Country (2011), and National Anthem (2008), all from Four Way books, and Fallen from a Chariot (Carnegie Mellon, 2005). Prufer’s work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, AGNI, The Paris Review, The New Republic, * * and elsewhere. He is Professor of English at The University of Houston, where he also directs The Unsung Masters Series, a book series devoted to rediscovering great, long-forgotten authors. (updated 10/2024)