Sean Thomas Dougherty’s most recent books are Death Prefers the Minor Keys from BOA Editions, and The Dead are Everywhere Telling Us Things, winner of the 2021 Jacar Press Full Length Poetry Prize. His book The Second O of Sorrow won the Housatonic Book Award and was cowinner of the Paterson Poetry Prize. His poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Best American Poetry, Brevity, Barnstorm, and the Kenyon Review among others. He lives and works as a longterm Carer and Medtech in Erie, PA.