Sean Singer was born in Guadala­jara, Jalis­co, Mex­i­co, in 1974. A for­mer New York City taxi dri­ver, he has an MFA from Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­si­ty in St. Louis and a Ph.D. in Amer­i­can Stud­ies from Rut­gers Uni­ver­si­ty-Newark, and has been award­ed a fel­low­ship from the Nation­al Endow­ment for the Arts. Singer is the author of two pri­or col­lec­tions of poet­ry: Hon­ey & Smoke and Discog­ra­phy, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize and the Nor­ma Far­ber First Book Award from the Poet­ry Soci­ety of Amer­i­ca. He offers edi­to­r­i­al ser­vices at seansinger​po​et​ry​.com.