Michael Montlack is the author of the poetry book Cool Limbo (NYQ Books) and the editor of the Lambda Finalist essay anthology My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them (University of Wisconsin Press). Recently his work appeared in North American Review, Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, Poet Lore, Cortland Review, and Painted Bride Quarterly. He lives in NYC.