Rob Carney is the author of nine books of poems, most recently The Book of Drought (Texas Review Press 2024) and Call and Response (Black Lawrence Press 2021). He is a recipient of the XJ Kennedy Prize in Poetry, the Milton Kessler Memorial Prize, and the Robinson Jeffers/Tor House Foundation Award for Poetry, and he has written a featured series called “Old Roads, New Stories” for the award-winning online journal Terrain.org for the last nine years. Favorite drink: coffee. Favorite animal: the great white. He is a professor of English at Utah Valley University and lives in Salt Lake City.