Patrick Rosal is author of four books, most recently, Brooklyn Antediluvian, which was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award in Poetry. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Grantland, New England Review, Tin House, Best American Poetry, and many other journals and anthologies. The son of Ilokano immigrants from the Philippines, he is a former Fulbright Research Scholar and currently an Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University-Camden.