Mike White is the author of two poetry collections, How to Make a Bird with Two Hands (The Word Works) and Addendum to a Miracle (Waywiser Press), which won the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Individual poems have appeared in such magazines as Poetry, Ploughshares, The New Republic, FIELD, The Yale Review, and The Threepenny Review. He lives in Salt Lake City and teaches at the University of Utah. (updated 2017)

How to Make a Bird with Two Hands was awarded the Washington Prize by The Word Works. One of the poems in the collection, “God in the Details,” was first published here.