The Self-Styled No-Child

UW English alum Cody Walker (1990) is the author of Shuffle and Breakdown (Waywiser Press, 2008) and the co-editor of Alive at the Center: Contemporary Poems from the Pacific Northwest (Ooligan Press, 2013). His poems have appeared in The Yale Review, Parnassus, Slate, Poetry Northwest, The Hecht Prize Anthology, and The Best American Poetry (2007 and 2015); his essays have appeared online in The New Yorker and The Kenyon Review. He lives with his family in Ann Arbor, where he teaches English at the University of Michigan.