Nick Lantz

Nick Lantz was raised in California and earned his BA in Religious Studies from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005. He is the author of four books of poetry—We Don't Know We Don't Know (Graywolf Press, 2010), The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors' House (University of Wisconsin Press, 2010), How to Dance as the Roof Caves In (Graywolf Press, 2014), and You, Beast (University of Wisconsin Press, 2017). He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. He teaches in the MFA program at Sam Houston State University, where he is the editor of the Texas Review.