Thomas Heise is the author of three books: Moth; or how I came to be with you again (Sarabande, 2013), Horror Vacui: Poems (Sarabande, 2006), and Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture (Rutgers University Press, 2011). His work has been anthologized in Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century and will be included in the forthcoming collection The Americas Anthology of New Writings: From Patagonia to Nunavut. An associate professor at McGill University, he divides his time between Montreal and Brooklyn.