Brian Blanchfield is the author of two books of poetry, Not Even Then (University of California Press, 2004) and A Several World (Nightboat Books, 2014), which received the 2014 James Laughlin Award and was named a longlist finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry. His collection of literary essays--autobiography and cultural close readings--is forthcoming from Nightboat early in 2015. An editor of Fence and the host of Speedway and Swan, a biweekly poetry and music program co-produced with the University of Arizona Poetry Center, he lives in Tucson.