Ralph Black is the author of two poetry collections—Bloom and Laceration (Green Writers Press, 2018), which won the Hopper Poetry Prize, and Turning Over the Earth (Milkweed Editions, 2000)—and a chapbook, The Apple Psalms. His work has also received the Anne Halley Poetry Prize from The Massachusetts Review and the Chelsea Poetry Prize. Poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, Orion, AGNI, and West Branch. He teaches at SUNY, College at Brockport, and lives in Rochester, New York. (updated 10/2019)