Ernest Hilbert is the author of Sixty Sonnets, All of You on the Good Earth, Caligulan—selected as winner of the 2017 Poets’ Prize—and Last One Out. His fifth book, Storm Swimmer, was selected by Rowan Ricardo Phillips as the winner of the 2022 Vassar Miller Prize and appeared in 2023. He lives in Philadelphia where he works as a rare book dealer and book reviewer for the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. His poem “Mars Ultor” appeared in Best American Poetry 2018. Visit him at www.ernesthilbert.com.