Michael Ruby is a poet and literary editor who lives in Brooklyn. He is the author of nine poetry books, most recently Sounds of Summer in the Country (BlazeVOX, 2025), Close Your Eyes, Visions (Station Hill, 2024), The Star-Spangled Banner (Station Hill, 2020), The Mouth of the Bay (BlazeVOX, 2019), American Songbook (Ugly Duckling, 2013) and Compulsive Words (BlazeVOX, 2010). His trilogy in prose and poetry, Memories, Dreams and Inner Voices (Station Hill, 2012), includes ebooks Fleeting Memories (Ugly Duckling, 2008) and Inner Voices Heard Before Sleep (Argotist, 2011). His chapbook From an Album of Verses won the 2024 James Tate Prize from SurVision Books. He also is co-editor of Bernadette Mayer’s early books, Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words (Station Hill, 2015); and Mayer’s and Lewis Warsh’s collaboration Piece of Cake (Station Hill, 2020). He worked for many years as an editor of articles on U.S. news and politics at The Wall Street Journal.
