Eric LeMay received an M.F.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in English Renaissance literature at Northwestern University. An award-winning teacher, he has taught at Harvard, Columbia, and is currently a faculty member at his alma mater, Ohio University. He has worked as an editor at The Poetry Society of America, TriQuarterly, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, and has recently become the Web Editor for Alimentum: The Literature of Food. His previous work has appeared in The Nation, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, and The Harvard Review; it has been noted in the Best American Essays series and featured on Poetry Daily. He has published one book of poems.