Steven Toussaint

was born and raised in Chicago. After graduating from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop he emigrated to New Zealand in 2011, where he spent the better part of the past decade. His books include The Bellfounder and Lay Studies, which was shortlisted for the Mary and Peter Biggs Poetry Prize at the 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Recent writing can be found in Fence, Wild Court, Poetry, The Spinoff, The New Zealand Listener, Commonweal, Image, and Literary Hub. He is currently pursuing graduate study in metaphysics and poetics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.