Iain Haley Pollock is the author of three poetry collections, Spit Back a Boy (U. Georgia Press, 2011), Ghost, Like a Place (Alice James, 2018), and the forthcoming All the Possible Bodies (Alice James, September 2025). His work has received several honors including the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, a 2023 New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship in Poetry, and a nomination for an NAACP Image Award. He directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Manhattanville University in Purchase, NY.