Wesley Rothman is the author of SUBWOOFER (New Issues 2017), winner of the New Issues Editor’s Choice Award & an honorable mention for the 2018 Motton Book Prize. His work has appeared in The Believer, Bennington Review, Boston Review, Cherry Tree, Copper Nickel, Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, The Hopkins Review, Image Journal, The Kenyon Review, The Los Angeles Review, Mississippi Review, New England Review, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, The Slowdown, Southern Humanities Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Vinyl, Waxwing, the Poets on Growth anthology, The Golden Shovel Anthology, & elsewhere. His criticism has appeared in Publishers Weekly, Boston Review, Callaloo, Rain Taxi Review of Books, & American Microreviews & Interviews. He has earned degrees from the University of San Diego, Emerson College, & Catholic University, and he’s served in organizing or editorial roles for Copper Canyon Press, Ploughshares, Salamander, and Mass Poetry. For over a decade, he has taught in higher education and high school summer programs, including for Berklee College of Music, Emerson College, Suffolk University, UMass Boston, Catholic University, Loyola University Chicago, and Upward Bound. His work has earned fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Vermont Studio Center. A former Teaching Artist for the National Gallery of Art, he teaches at Howard University.