Conor Bracken is the author of the poetry books Henry Kissinger, Mon Amour (Bull City Press) and The Enemy of My Enemy is Me (Diode Editions), as well as translator of Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine’s Scorpionic Sun (CSU Poetry Center) and Jean D’Amérique’s No Way in the Skin Without This Bloody Embrace (Ugly Duckling Presse). He teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Art.