Gregory Lawless is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the author of I Thought I Was New Here (BlazeVOX, 2009), Dreamburgh, Pennsylvania (Dream Horse Press, forthcoming), Far Away (Red Mountain Press, forthcoming) and the chapbook Foreclosure (Back Pages Publishers, 2013). He is the is the winner of the 2013 Orphic Prize for Poetry and the 2014 Red Mountain Poetry Prize. His poems have been featured in such places as Pleiades, The Journal, Third Coast, Gulf Stream, The Cincinnati Review, Sixth Finch, La Petite Zine, Best of the Net, Verse Daily, and others.