Gaylord Brewer is the author of 17 previous books of poetry, fiction, criticism, and cookery, most recently the poetry collection Worship the Pig (Red Hen, 2020) and the creative nonfiction collection Before the Storm Takes It Away (Red Hen, 2024). His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry and The Bedford Introduction to Literature. His many international residencies include Hawthornden Castle (Scotland) and the Global Arts Village (India), and he has taught in Russia, Kenya, England, and the Czech Republic. Brewer was awarded a Tennessee Arts Commission Fellowship in 2009. He is a native of Louisville, Kentucky, and has been a professor at Middle Tennessee State University for more than three decades, where for two of those decades he edited the journal Poems & Plays.

Gaylord Brewer is the High Frequency Press 2024 Morse Code Poetry Contest Winner. His collection, Negotiable Gods, is forthcoming from the press.