Tim Suermondt is the author of two full-length collections: Trying to Help the Elephant Man Dance( The Backwaters Press, 2007 ) and Just Beautiful (New York Quarterly Books, 2010.) He has published poems in Poetry, The Georgia Review, Blackbird, Able Muse, Prairie Schooner, PANK, Bellevue Literary Review and Stand Magazine(U.K.) and has poems forthcoming in Mudlark, A Narrow Fellow and Plume Poetry Journal among others. After many years in Queens and Brooklyn, he has moved to Cambridge with his wife, the poet Pui Ying Wong.