Brett Fletcher Lauer was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the co-editor of Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets (Verse Press, 2004) and Poetry in Motion from Coast to Coast (W.W. Norton, 2002). He is the Managing Editor of the Poetry Society of America, and a Poetry Editor of A Public Space, and his poems have appeared in BOMB, Boston Review, and elsewhere.