Iain Haley Pollock

Iain Haley Pollock is the author of three poetry collections, Spit Back a Boy (University of Georgia Press, 2011), Ghost, Like a Place (Alice James Books, 2018), and the forthcoming All the Possible Bodies (Alice James Books, September 2025). Pollock has received several honors for his work, including the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Poetry, the Bin Ramke Prize for Poetry, and a nomination for an NAACP Image Award. He directs the MFA program in creative writing at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York.