Micah Ballard is the author of four full-length collections of poetry, The Michaux Notebook (FMSBW), Afterlives (Bootstrap Press, 2016), Waifs and Strays (City Lights Books, 2011), nominated for a California Book Award, and Parish Krewes (Bootstrap Press, 2009), and over a dozen small books, including Muddy Waters (State Champs, 2022), Selected Prose (2008-19) (Blue Press, 2020), Daily Vigs (Bird & Beckett Books, 2019), Vesper Chimes (Gas Meter, 2014), Evangeline Downs (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2006) and Negative Capability in the Verse of John Wieners (2nd edition, Bootstrap Press, 2017). His writing has appeared in Americana, Bay Poetics, Blue Book, Boog City, Chicago Review, Drunken Boat, The Emerald Tablet, Evidence of the Paranormal, Harriet: The Poetry Foundation, LIT, LiveMag NYC!, MARY: A Journal of New Writing, PEN, The Poetry Project Newsletter, The Recluse, Try!, and Vanitas, among others.