Bill Coyle’s first collection of poetry, The God of This World to His Prophet, won the New Criterion Poetry Prize and was published by Ivan R. Dee in 2006. His poems and translations have appeared in such journals as The Hudson Review, The New Republic, Poetry, and Modern Poetry in Translation, and have been anthologized in The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets (Ohio University Press/Swallow Press, 2009), New European Poets (Graywolf, 2008), and The Other Side of Landscape: An Anthology of Contemporary Nordic Poetry (Slope Editions, 2006). He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, and works in the Writing Center at Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts.