Matthew Zapruder is the author of I Love Hearing Your Dreams (Scribner, 2024), and five previous collections of poetry, as well as Why Poetry (Ecco/Harper Collins) and Story of a Poem (Unnamed). He is editor at large at Wave Books, where he edits contemporary poetry, prose, and translations. He teaches in the MFA in creative writing at Saint Mary’s College of California, and plays music with The Figments and The Date Nights.