Gary J. Whitehead has previously authored four books of poetry. His collection Strange What Rises was published by Terrapin Books in 2019. A Glossary of Chickens was selected for the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets and was published by Princeton University Press in 2013. Earlier books include Measuring Cubits While the Thunder Claps (David Robert Books) and The Velocity of Dust (Salmon). He has also authored three chapbooks of poetry, two of which were winners of national competitions. His writing awards include a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, the Anne Halley Poetry Prize from The Massachusetts Review, and the PEN Northwest Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency Award. His poems have appeared widely, most notably in The New Yorker and Poetry, and have been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, The Writer's Almanac, Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry, the Guardian's Poem of the Week, and the BBC's Words and Music program. He lives in northern New Jersey.