Iain Haley Pollock is the author of the poetry collections Ghost, Like a Place (2018) and Spit Back a Boy (2011).  His poems have appeared in numerous other publications, ranging from American Poetry Review to The New York Times Magazine and The Progressive.  Pollock has received several honors for his work including the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the Alice Faye di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, and a nomination for an NAACP Image Award.  He currently serves as Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY.

“Iain Haley Pollock is a gifted storyteller and All the Possible Bodies is an unflinchingly honest portrait of a mixed-race Black man, a father and teacher in contemporary America. Fed by the past, pitched toward the future, Pollock’s voice is one of abiding conscience. In deeply moving poems, he probes the ethical question, what it means to be good, and the existential one, what it is simply to be—scoring myths of the land and self we ‘know by heart’ and ‘stumble through.’”
—Shara McCallum