Benjamin S. Grossberg is the author of the poetry collections My Husband Would, winner of the Connecticut Book Award, and Sweet Core Orchard, winner of a Lambda Literary Award. His novel, The Spring before Obergefell was selected by Percival Everett for the Associated Writing Program’s James Alan McPherson Prize and received a Lambda Literary Award. His poems have appeared widely, including in The Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. He is director of creative writing at the University of Hartford.