John Hennessy is the author of two poetry collections, Coney Island Pilgrims and Bridge and Tunnel, and his work appears in many journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry 2013, The Believer, The New Republic, Poetry, The Yale Review, New Letters, The Antioch Review, The Sewanee Review, Jacket (Australia), Salt (UK), Harvard Review, What's Your Exit? A Literary Detour Through New Jersey, Poetry Daily, and Best New Poets 2005. Hennessy is a contributing editor to Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics, and he is the poetry editor of The Common, a new print magazine based at Amherst College. In 2007-2008 he held the Resident Fellowship in Poetry at the Amy Clampitt House. Hennessy went to Princeton University on a Cane scholarship and received graduate degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Arkansas; he teaches at the University of Massachusetts and lives in Amherst.