Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of the nonfiction books, The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour through America’s Food, Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer (both Liveright), Pot Farm, and Barolo (both University of Nebraska Press); the poetry books The Morrow Plots (Black Lawrence Press), Warranty in Zulu (Barrow Street Press), and Sagittarius Agitprop (Black Lawrence Press); and two chapbooks. His forthcoming nonfiction book, A Brief Atmospheric Future, is due out in 2021 from Liveright.