Brad Richard is the author of Habitations (Portals Press, 2000); Motion Studies (The Word Works, 2011 - winner of the 2010 Washington Prize; 2nd, expanded edition, 2025); Butcher’s Sugar (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2012); Parasite Kingdom (The Word Works, 2019 - winner of the 2018 Tenth Gate Prize); and Turned Earth (LSU Press 2025). He has also published four chapbooks, including Larval Songs (Antenna, 2018), a collaboration with artist Kelly Anne Mueller, and, most recently, In Place, chosen for the Robin Becker Series from Seven Kitchens Press. He serves on the editorial board of The Word Works (as imprint editor for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection) and is on the faculty of the Kenyon Review Writing Workshops. He lives, writes, and gardens in New Orleans. More at bradrichard.org.