Matthew Cooperman is the author of nine books, most recently, the atmosphere is not a perfume it is odorless (Free Verse Editions, 2024), NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified) with Aby Kaupang (Futurepoem, 2018), as well as Spool, winner of the New Measure Prize (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2016), the text + image collaboration Imago for the Fallen World with Marius Lehene (Jaded Ibis Press, 2013), and Still: of the Earth as the Ark which Does Not Move (Counterpath Press, 2011). A founding editor of Quarter After Eight, and co-poetry editor of Colorado Review, Cooperman is a professor in English at Colorado State University. He lives in Fort Collins with his wife, the poet Aby Kaupang, and their two children. www.matthewcooperman.org