David Trinidad is the author of more than twenty books of poetry, collaborations, and edited volumes. These include Swinging on a Star, Notes on a Past Life, Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems, and Plasticville, finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Trinidad is editor of Punk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World: Poems and Notebooks of Ed Smith and A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos, which won a Lambda Literary Award. He is a professor of poetry at Columbia College, Chicago.