Chard deNiord is the poet laureate of Vermont and author of six books of poetry, including In My Unknowing (forthcoming in 2020 from the University of Pittsburgh Press), Interstate (2015), The Double Truth (2011), and Night Mowing (2005). He is also the author of two books of interviews with eminent American poets, I Would Lie to You if I Could(2018) and Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs (2011). A professor of English and creative writing at Providence College and a trustee of the Ruth Stone Trust, deNiord lives in Westminster West, Vermont, with his wife, Liz. His interviews with Natasha Trethewey, Jane Hirshfield, and Carolyn Forché have all appeared in WLT.