Michael Klein is the author of six books of poetry and a five-time finalist and two-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award. He's also the author of two books of autobiography and his work has appeared in Poetry, Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Tin House, FENCE, and many other publications. He has been a member of the writing faculty at Goddard College MFA Program for Writers, Sarah Lawrence College, Binghamton University, and Hunter College, as well as more than two decades of teaching summers at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.