Bill Carty is the author of Huge Cloudy (Octopus Books, 2019), which was long-listed for the Believer Book Award. He has received poetry fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Artist Trust, Hugo House, and Jack Straw. Originally from coastal Maine, Bill now lives in Seattle, where he is senior editor at Poetry Northwest and teaches at Hugo House, the UW Robinson Center for Young Scholars, and Edmonds College. His poem “The Marshes Have No Memory” can be found here. It appears along with another poem in the May/June 2021 issue of the Kenyon Review and another poem, “We Sailed on the Lake,” appears this month in KROnline.