Michael Broder is the author of This Life Now (A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2014), a finalist for the 2015 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, BLOOM, Court Green, OCHO, Painted Bride Quarterly and other journals, as well as in the anthologies This New Breed: Gents, Bad Boys and Barbarians 2 (Windstorm Creative, 2004); Spaces Between Us: Poetry, Prose and Art on HIV/ AIDS (Third World Press, 2010); and Divining Divas: 50 Gay Men on Their Muses (Lethe Press, 2012). He is the curator of the HIV Here & Now Project. He lives in Brooklyn with his husband, the poet Jason Schneiderman, and a backyard colony of feral cats.