Arthur Solway’s poetry and essays have appeared in The Antioch Review, Barrow Street, BOMB, The London Magazine, Salmagundi, Southern Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. He was cited as a finalist for the 2021 Donald Justice Prize in Poetry and for the Anhinga Press-Robert Dana Award in 2020. His chapbook, Friday Night, Shanghai was among the 2021 finalists for Tupelo Press’s Sunken Garden Award and Swan Scythe Press’s 2021 chapbook award, as well as a three-year consecutive finalist or semifinalist for the Tomaž Šalamun Prize. His critical reviews, profiles, and cultural essays have been featured in Artforum, Frieze, and ArtAsiaPacific magazines. He is a poetry editor for The Shanghai Literary Review and presently lives in Santa Cruz, California. Poet, Essayist, Father, Husband. Not in any particular order.