Glyn Maxwell was born in 1962 in Hertfordshire, England, and studied English at Oxford and poetry at Boston University. Among the honors he has received are the Somerset Maugham Prize and the E.M. Forster Prize, which he was awarded in 1997 by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent books of poetry are The Breakage and The Boys at Twilight: Poems 1990-1995. Maxwell now lives in the United States with his wife and daughter.