Will Dowd is a writer currently living and working in Braintree, Massachusetts. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University, where he was a national Jacob K. Javits Fellow in poetry. He also received an MS from MIT. His poems have appeared in The Rialto, Barrow Street, 5 AM, Post Road, 32 Poems, Eclipse, and Boston College Magazine. In 2010, he was selected by Paul Muldoon for the Scotti Merrill Memorial Scholarship at the Key West Literary Seminar. In 2006, he was a finalist for the Ruth Lilly Fellowship from Poetry magazine.