Troy Jollimore is the author of three books of poetry and three books of philosophy, as well as numerous articles, essays, and reviews. His first collection of poetry, Tom Thomson in Purgatory, won the National Book Critics Circle award in poetry for 2006. His third, Syllabus of Errors, appeared on the New York Times’ list of the best books of poetry published in 2015. His poems have appeared in publications including the New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, McSweeney’s, the New England Review, Subtropics, and Tin House. In 2013 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry.