Michael Cantor’s first full-length poetry collection, Life in the Second Circle (Able Muse Press, 2012), was a finalist for the 2013 Massachusetts Book Award for Poetry. His second collection, Furusato, (Kelsay Books) appeared in 2019. A chapbook, The Performer, was published in 2007. His work has appeared in The Dark Horse, Measure, Raintown Review, frogpond, New Walk, Think, Light, and numerous other journals and anthologies. A native New Yorker, he has lived and worked in Japan, Latin America and Europe; and has now gone to ground in Santa Fe, New Mexico.