Jay Udall's poems, stories, and essays have appeared in more than 100 publications, including North American Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Prairie Schooner, Birmingham Poetry Review, Fourteen Hills, Cincinnatti Review, Rattle, and Verse Daily. He is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Reach Beyond Reach, winner of the 2022 Comstock Review Chapbook Award. Previous volumes include Because a Fire in Our Heads, winner of the 2017 X. J. Kennedy Prize (Texas Review Press/Texas A&M University Press, 2018), and The Welcome Table (University of New Mexico Press, 2009; recipient of the 2009 New Mexico Book Award).