Donald Platt’s eighth book, Swansdown, won the 2022 Off the Grid Poetry Prize and was published last October. His poems have appeared within the past year, or are forthcoming in, Alaska Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, Diode, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Cimarron Review, Seneca Review, Third Coast, Florida Review, Fence, Five Points, Gulf Coast, Iowa Review, Southern Review, Yale Review online,and The Atlantic online. He has been awarded two individual artists fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and three Pushcart Prizes and teaches in Purdue University’s MFA program.