Dean Rader’s Works & Days, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize and Landscape Portrait Figure Form (2014) was named a Barnes & Noble Review Best Poetry Book. Three books appeared in 2017—Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (Copper Canyon); Suture, collaborative poems written with Simone Muench (Black Lawrence Press); and Bullets Into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence (Beacon Press). He is a professor at the University of San Francisco.