John Yau is a poet, critic, fiction writer, publisher of Black Square Editions, and one of the founders of the online magazine, Hyperallergic Weekend. His recent books of poems include Further Adventures in Monochrome (Copper Canyon, 2012) and Bijoux in the Dark (Letter Machine Editions, 2018). His next book of poem, Genghis Chan on Drums is forthcoming from Omnidawn (Fall, 2021). He is the author of monographs on Thomas Nozkowski, Richard Artschwager, Jasper Johns, Catherine Murphy, A.R. Penck, and William Tillyer, as well as many catalog essays. His latest books include selections of essays, The Wild Children of William Blake (Autonomedia, 2017) and Foreign Sounds or Sounds Foreign (MadHat, 2020). He has received awards and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, National Endowment of the Arts, Academy of American Poets, New York Foundation of the Arts, Ingram Merrill Foundation and the General Electric Foundation. He received the 2017 Jackson Award in Poetry. He is Professor of Critical Studies at Mason Gross School of the Arts (Rutgers University) and lives in New York.