Brian Blanchfield is the author of two books of poetry: Not Even Then (University of California Press, 2004) and A Several World (Nightboat Books, 2014), which was awarded the 2014 James Laughlin Award and named a longlist finalist for the 2014 National Book Award in Poetry. His chapbook The History of Ideas, 1973-2012  was published by Spork Press, and his collection of essays, Onesheets, is forthcoming from Nightboat. He is an editor of Fence and an adjunct professor at the University of Arizona.