Michael Waters

Michael Waters is the author of many collections of poetry, including Pagan Sky: New & Selected Poems, 2000–2025 (Boa Editions, 2026);The Dean of Discipline (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018) and Celestial Joyride (Boa Editions, 2016). He is the coeditor, with Mihaela Moscaliuc, of Fruits of the Earth: Harvest Poems (Everyman’s Library, 2025) and Border Lines: Poems of Migration (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020).

Waters has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is a professor of English at Monmouth University and lives in New Jersey.