Chad Abushanab is the author of The Last Visit (Autumn House Press 2019), which was selected by Jericho Brown as the winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, Best New Poets, Birmingham Poetry Review, Ecotone, Southern Poetry Review, Shenandoah, The Hopkins Review, and 32 Poems, among others. He earned his Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing at Texas Tech University. He currently lives in Iowa City.