Sigman Byrd teaches writing at the University of Colorado in Boulder. His first book of poems, Under the Wanderer’s Star, was chosen by Gerald Stern as the winner of the 2005 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. A new chapbook of poems, Who We Were, was published by Finishing Line Pressin 2010 and a second full-length poetry collection, Wake Up, Sleepwaker, was published by Conundrum Press in 2014. Sigman has also published numerous poems in a variety of journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, American Literary Review, American Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, Georgia Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Poetry, Southern Review, and Southwest Review.
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