David Lehman, the series editor of The Best American Poetry , edited The Oxford Book of American Poetry . His books of poetry include The Morning Line , When a Woman Loves a Man , and The Daily Mirror. The most recent of his many nonfiction books is The Mysterious Romance of Murder: Crime, Detection, and the Spirit of Noir . He lives in New York City and Ithaca, New York. Matthew Zapruder is the author of six collections of poetry Come on All You Ghosts , a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and Father's Day , as well as Why Poetry and Story of a Poem , a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he teaches in the MFA in creative writing program at Saint Mary's College of California. Zapruder has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a William Carlos Williams Award, a May Sarton Award from the Academy of American Arts and Sciences, and a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship. In 2000, he cofounded Verse Press, and is now editor at large at Wave Books, where he edits contemporary poetry, prose, and translations.

His poetry has been adapted and performed by Gabriel Kahane and Brooklyn Rider, and was the libretto for Vespers for a New Dark Age, a piece by Missy Mazzoli commissioned for the Ecstatic Music Festival at Carnegie Hall. From 2016 to 2017, he held the annually rotating position of Editor of the Poetry Column for The New York Times Magazine and guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2022 .