Eric Tyler Benick wrote the fox hunts (Beautiful Days, 2023), Memory Field; A Travelogue of Forgetting (Long Day, 2024) and Terracotta Fragments (antiphony, 2026). With Nick Rossi, he runs Ursus Americanus Press, a publisher of shorter poetics. His recent work has appeared in Apartment, Bennington Review, Brooklyn Review, Chicago Review, Copper Nickel, Harvard Advocate, NOIR SAUNA, and Puerto Del Sol.  He lives in Brooklyn and teaches postcolonial and anti-carceral literatures at Wagner College where he is criminally adjunct.