Michael D SnedikerMichael D. Snediker is the author of The New York Editions (Fordham University Press, winner of the Poets Out Loud prize) and The Apartment of Tragic Appliances (punctum books, Lambda finalist for Best Gay Poetry), as well as Contingent Figure: Chronc Pain & Queer Embodiment (University of Minnesota Press) and Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood & Other Felicitous Persuasions (University of Minnesota Press). He is the fortunate recipient of multiple residencies at Yaddo, and is presently Professor of American Literature & Poetics at the University of Houston. Read More Read Less