John Hennessy is the author of a previous collection, Bridge and Tunnel (Turning Point Books, 2007), and his poems appear in The Believer, Best American Poetry 2013, Harvard Review, The Huffington Post, LIT, Jacket, The New Republic, Poetry, Southwest Review, and The Yale Review. Hennessy went to Princeton on a Cane Scholarship and completed graduate degrees at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Arkansas. A former Amy Clampitt Fellow, he teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and serves as poetry editor for The Common.
