Bobby C. Rogers is the author of Paper Anniversary (Pitt Poetry Series, 2010), which won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and Social History (LSU Press, 2016). His third book, Shift Work, is forthcoming in 2022 from LSU Press in their Southern Messenger Poets Series. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pew Charitable Trusts, and was named a Witter Bynner Fellow at the Library of Congress. He lives in Memphis, Tenn.