Brent Cunningham is a writer living in Oakland, California. He has published two books of poetry, Bird & Forest (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2005) and Journey to the Sun (Atelos, 2012), and one chapbook of fake translations, The Sad Songs of Hell (Ugly Duckling, 2018). He and Neil Alger co-founded Hooke Press, a chapbook press dedicated to publishing short runs of poetry, criticism, theory, writing and ephemera. He has been working on a novel since at least the Clinton administration.