Conor Bracken has recent poems published or forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, At Length, Colorado Review, Diode, Indiana Review, and The New Yorker, among others. His chapbook, Henry Kissinger, Mon Amour, selected by Diane Seuss as the winner of the 2017 Frost Place Chapbook Competition, was published by Bull City Press in September 2017. A graduate of Virginia Tech, a former poetry editor for Gulf Coast, and the assistant director of a university writing center, he received his MFA from the University of Houston, in Houston, Texas, where he and his wife currently live.