Michael Walsh is the author of The Dirt Riddles, which received the Miller Willams Prize and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. In 2021 Autumn House Press will publish Creep Love, his next poetry collection, and, in 2022, Queer Nature, an ecoqueer poetry anthology. His poems and stories have appeared in journals such as The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Cimarron Review, Cincinnati Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Journal, North Dakota Quarterly, and Prairie Schooner.