Jay Hopler (1970-2022) was the author of Green Squall and The Abridged History of Rainfall, a National Book Award Finalist; and the editor, with Kimberly Johnson, of Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry. The recipient of, among other awards and prizes, the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, a Lannan Foundation fellowship, a Whiting Award, and a Joseph Brodsky Memorial fellowship, he taught in the writing program at the University of South Florida.

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