Robert Wood Lynn’s chapbook How to Maintain Eye Contact was published by Button Poetry in 2023. His debut poetry collection, Mothman Apologia (Yale University Press), was named a Best Book of 2022 by the New York Times and the New York Public Library. Winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, he has published work in American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, Ploughshares, Poetry, New Ohio Review, and other journals.