Grant Clauser lives in southeast Pennsylvania with his wife, daughters, and a loyal dog. He earned an MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University in 1993, where he was a Richard Devine Fellow. He has worked for several literary journals, including the Mid-American Review, Janus, and Toad Highway. He currently serves as editor for the New York Times' Wirecutter. In 2010 he was selected as the Montgomery County Poet Laureate by Robert Bly. That same year he started the Montco Wordshop, a monthly workshop for area poets. He has also led workshops at Philadelphia’s Musehouse Writing Center, Rosemont College’s Writers’ Studio, and several writers’ conferences. In 2013 his book Necessary Myths won the Dogfish Head Poetry prize. His poems have appeared in a variety of journals including The American Poetry Review, Cincinnati Poetry Review, The Literary Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Heartland Review, The Journal, Mason’s Road, Cortland Review, The Good Men Project, Wisconsin Review, The Southern Poetry Review, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Superstition Review, The Seattle Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Tar River Poetry, Painted Bride Quarterly and others.