Originally from NYC, Gilad Jaffe received an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He holds a BA in Written Arts from Bard College where he was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize, and has served on staff with the John Cage Trust and AmeriCorps at the Providence Children's Museum. His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bennington Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, TriQuarterly, and The Yale Review, among others. He is currently an Assistant Editor at Conjunctions.