Roger Greenwald grew up in New York City. He attended City College and the Poetry Project workshop at St. Mark’s Church In-the-Bowery. then completed graduate degrees at the University of Toronto, where he founded and edited the international literary annual WRIT Magazine at Innis College. His poetry has appeared in such journals as The World, Pequod, Pleiades, Poetry East, Prism International, The Spirit That Moves Us, The Texas Observer, Great River Review, Leviathan Quarterly, Exile Magazine, CNQ, Copper Nickel, The Manhattan Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Stand Magazine. He has won two CBC Literary Awards (for poetry and travel literature), the 2018 Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Prize from Exile Magazine, and the 2024 Littoral Press Poetry Prize. He has published three previous books of poems: Connecting Flight, Slow Mountain Train, and The Half-Life.