Michael Montlack is the editor of the Lambda Finalist essay anthology My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them (University of Wisconsin Press) and author of the poetry collections DADDY (NYQ Books, 2020) and COOL LIMBO (NYQ Books, 2011) along with three chapbooks. His poems have appeared in North American Review, Poet Lore, The Cincinnati Review, The Offing, Hotel Amerika, and Los Angeles Review. He lives in NYC and teaches for CUNY and Gotham Writers Workshop.