Matthew Zapruder was born in 1967 in Washington, DC, and is the author of three collections of poetry: American Linden, awarded the Tupelo Press Editors Prize; The Pajamaist, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America; and Come On All You Ghosts (Copper Canyon Press, 2010). He has also published a collaborative work with painter Chris Uphues, For You in Full Bloom (Pilot Press, 2009). Zapruder lives in San Francisco.