Michael White is the author of four collections of poetry and a memoir, Travels in Vermeer (Persea 2015), and has published widely in respected periodicals, including The Paris Review, The New Republic, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Western Humanities Review, and the Best American Poetry. His most recent collection is Persea's Vermeer in Hell, winner of the Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award. White teaches poetry and is presently chair of the Creative Writing department at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.