Adam Clay is the author of Stranger (Milkweed Editions, 2016), A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World (Milkweed Editions, 2012), and The Wash (Parlor Press, 2006). A fourth book, To Make Room for the Sea, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Bennington Review, Denver Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, Gulf Coast, Georgia Review, Boston Review, Tin House, Iowa Review, jubilat, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a Literary Artist Fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Commission. He edits Mississippi Review, co-edits Typo Magazine, and edits book reviews for Kenyon Review.