Ben Mazer was born in New York City in 1964. He was educated at Harvard University, where he studied with Seamus Heaney and William Alfred, and at the Editorial Institute, Boston University, where his advisors were Christopher Ricks and Archie Burnett. He is the author of poetry collections including White Cities (Barbara Matteau Editions, 1995), Poems (Pen & Anvil, 2010), January 2008 (Dark Sky Books, 2010), New Poems (Pen & Anvil, 2013), and The Glass Piano (MadHat, 2015). He is the editor of The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom (Un-Gyve, 2015), Selected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (Harvard University Press, 2010), and Landis Everson’s Everything Preserved: Poems 1955–2005 (Graywolf Press, 2006), which won the first Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Foundation. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is the editor of The Battersea Review.