Adam Clay is the author of A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World: Poemsand The Wash (Free Verse Editions). A third book of poems, Stranger, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in 2016. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, Crab Orchard Review, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, The Kenyon Review Online, Black Warrior Review, Iowa Review, The Pinch, and elsewhere. He co-edits TYPO Magazine and teaches at the University of Illinois Springfield.