Michael Ruby is a poet, literary editor and journalist. He is the author of nine poetry books, most recently Sounds of Summer in the Country (BlazeVOX, 2025), Close Your Eyes, Visions (Station Hill, 2024), The Star-Spangled Banner (Station Hill, 2020), The Mouth of the Bay (BlazeVOX, 2019), American Songbook (Ugly Duckling, 2013) and Compulsive Words (BlazeVOX, 2010). His trilogy in prose and poetry, Memories, Dreams and Inner Voices (Station Hill, 2012), includes ebooks Fleeting Memories (Ugly Duckling, 2008) and Inner Voices Heard Before Sleep (Argotist Online, 2011). Recent ebooks include Titles & First Lines (Mudlark, 2018) and Compulsive Words (Argotist Online, 2024). His chapbook From an Album of Verses won the James Tate Prize from SurVision Books in 2024. Full recordings of most of his books are available on PennSound. He also is co-editor of Bernadette Mayer’s early books, Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words (Station Hill, 2015), Mayer’s and Lewis Warsh’s collaboration Piece of Cake (Station Hill, 2020) and the selected poems of Steve Dalachinsky, forthcoming from City Lights in the fall of 2026. He lives in Brooklyn and worked for many years as an editor of U.S. news and political articles at The Wall Street Journal.