Wyn Cooper has published five books of poetry prior to The Unraveling, as well as a novel, Way Out West. His poems, stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Poetry, as well as in 25 anthologies of poetry, including A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker. Many of his poems have been turned into songs, including by Sheryl Crow, David Broza, and Madison Smartt Bell. He is a former editor of Quarterly West, and the recipient of a fellowship from the Ucross Foundation. For two years he worked at the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute, a think tank run by the Poetry Foundation. He lives in Vermont.