John Linstrom grew up in the Rust Belt tourist town of South Haven, Michigan, and is the author of the poetry collection To Leave for Our Own Country (Black Lawrence Press, 2024). His poems have recently appeared in Northwest Review, The Christian Century, North American Review, and elsewhere. He is the Mattie Allen Broyles Inaugural-Year Eminent Scholars Endowed Chair and an Assistant Professor of English at Centenary College of Louisiana. He also serves as the Series Editor of The Liberty Hyde Bailey Library for Cornell University Press, reintroducing the ecospheric writings of fellow South Havenite Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954) to twenty-first-century readers. His editions of Bailey’s works include The Nature-Study Idea and Related Writings (Cornell UP, 2023), The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener’s Companion (coedited; Cornell UP, 2019), and The Holy Earth (Counterpoint, 2015). As a museum practitioner, he has worked in such settings as the Climate Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, and the Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum. John holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Environment from Iowa State University and a PhD in English and American Literature from New York University. He lives with his wife and daughter in Shreveport, Louisiana.