Roy Bentley’s poems have appeared in Blackbird, Shenandoah, Rattle, The Southern Review as well as in Prairie Schooner and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, as well as fellowships from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs and the Ohio Arts Council. His fifth book, Walking with Eve in the Loved City, was selected as a finalist for the 2018 Miller Williams Poetry Prize by Billy Collins and is available from the University of Arkansas Press. A new book, American Loneliness, is forthcoming (spring of 2019) from Lost Horse Press.