Headshot of Owen McLeod
Photo courtesy of the poet

Owen McLeod (he/him), who first wrote poetry in college and then began again in his late 40s, is the author of Before After (Saturnalia Books, 2023) and Dream Kitchen (University of North Texas Press, 2019), the winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in poetry. He earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is a professor of philosophy at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.