Michael Waters

Michael Waters is the author of many collections of poetry, most recently 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.