Brian Simoneau is the author of the poetry collections No Small Comfort (Black Lawrence Press, 2021) and River Bound (C&R Press, 2014), which was chosen by Arthur Smith for the 2013 De Novo Prize. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, Mid-American Review, Poet Lore, Salamander, Southern Indiana Review, Third Coast, Waxwing, and other journals. He grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts, and received a BA from Amherst College and an MFA from the University of Oregon. He lives near Boston with his family.