Will Cordeiro has an MFA in poetry from Cornell, where he is currently a Ph.D. candidate studying 18th century British literature. He has been awarded residencies form Risley Residential College, Ora Lerman Trust, Provincetown Community Compact, and the Petrified Forest National Park. His recent work has been published or is forthcoming in journals such as Fourteen Hills, Harpur Palate, Comstock Review, Leveler, Waccamaw, Verse Wisconsin, Sentence, A cappella Zoo, Carte Blanche, Poetry Quarterly, Other Poetry, The Brooklyner, Ping Pong, Gulf Stream, and Word for/Word.