John Shoptaw

John Shoptaw was raised in the Mississippi River floodplain of “Swampeast” Missouri. He teaches poetry and ecopoetry in the English Department of UC Berkeley. His Times Beach won the Notre Dame Review Book Prize and the Northern California Book Award in Poetry. His new poetry collection, Near-Earth Object, will be published, with a foreword by Jenny Odell, by Unbound Edition Press in late March 2024.