Jay Deshpande is the author of Love the Stranger (YesYes Books). His poems have appeared in New England Review, AGNI, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry, the Scotti Merrill Memorial Award, a Kundiman fellowship, and residencies at Civitella Ranieri, Saltonstall Arts Colony, and Vermont Studio Center. He has taught poetry at Stanford University, Columbia University's School of the Arts, and elsewhere.