Mark Bibbins is the author of four books of poems, including 13th Balloon (2020), and They Don't Kill You Because They're Hungry, They Kill You Because They're Full (2014), from Copper Canyon Press. His first collection, Sky Lounge (Graywolf, 2003), received a Lambda Literary Award. Bibbins teaches in the graduate writing programs at The New School and Columbia University, and in NYU's Writers in Florence program.