Jay Deshpande is the author of THE UMBRIAN SONNETS (PANK Books, 2020) and LOVE THE STRANGER (YesYes Books, 2015). His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, New England Review, and elsewhere. The recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and residencies at Civitella Ranieri and the Saltonstall Arts Colony, he teaches at Brooklyn Poets and Columbia University.