Colin Bailes is a Florida poet currently living in Richmond, Virginia. He is the author of Wintering Ground, forthcoming from the University Press of Kentucky in Spring 2027. A National Poetry Series finalist, his poems have recently appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Best New Poets, Blackbird, The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, The Massachusetts Review, Narrative, Nashville Review, and Subtropics, among other journals. He holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, where he served as the 2020–2021 Levis Reading Prize Fellow and was awarded the Catherine and Joan Byrne Poetry Prize sponsored by the Academy of American Poets. He teaches writing at Virginia Commonwealth University and Randolph-Macon College.