Mark Bibbins is the author of four poetry collections, most recently 13th Balloon (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), recipient of the Publishing Triangle's 2021 Thom Gunn Award. His first book, Sky Lounge (Graywolf Press, 2003), received a Lambda Literary Award. Bibbins lives in New York City and teaches in the graduate writing programs of The New School and Columbia University, and in NYU's Writers in Florence program. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Paris Review, and in four volumes of The Best American Poetry.