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Arne Weingart’s poetry collections include Levitation for Agnostics, winner of the 2014 New American Press Poetry Prize, and Unpractical Thinking, winner of the 2019 Red Mountain Press Poetry Prize. Prizes for individual poems include those offered by “The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review,” the Frost Foundation, and “The Moth’s” Nature Writing Competition. Work has been anthologized in Border Lines, Poems of Migration (Knopf), and Poets Meet Politics (Hungry Hill Writing). He and his wife Karen live in Chicago.