Philip Metres is the author of ten books, including Shrapnel Maps (2020), The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance (2018), and Pictures at an Exhibition (2016). He has translated five books of poetry from Russian into English. His work has garnered the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lannan Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, and three Arab American Book Awards, among others. He is professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University, and is core faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts.