Michael Zeferino Spring is from Oregon, the author of five poetry collections and one children's book. His most recent collection is dentro do som/ inside the sound - a bilingual edition, with poems translated into Portuguese by Maria Joao Marques (Companhio Das Ilhas, Portugal, 2021). His poems also appear in Atlanta Review, Crannog, Gavea-Brown, The Midwest Quarterly, NEON, New York Quarterly, Paris/Atlantic, Poetry New Zealand, SurVision, and Spillway. He is a poetry editor for Pedestal Magazine, Cobra Lily Review, and Flowstone Press. His poetry awards include the Robert Graves Award, the Turtle Island Poetry Award. This book won the James Tate Poetry Prize 2022.
