Michael Collier is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently The Missing Mountain: New and Selected Poems (University of Chicago Press, 2021). The Ledge (Houghton Mifflin, 2002) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2023, he was the Mohr Visiting Poet at Stanford. Director emeritus of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences, he taught for many years at the University of Maryland, College Park.
