M. Bartley Seigel is the author of In the Bone-Cracking Cold (Wayne State University Press, 2025) and This Is What They Say (Typecast Publishing 2013). A former poet laureate of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, his widely published poems have appeared in literary journals such as Poetry Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, About Place, and Fourth River, among many others. He lives with his family on the Keweenaw Peninsula, Ojibwe homelands and 1842 ceded territory, where he teaches writing at Michigan Technological University.