Eugene Gloria is the author of four books of poems—Sightseer in This Killing City (Penguin-Random House, 2019), My Favorite Warlord (Penguin, 2012; winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award), Hoodlum Birds (Penguin, 2006), and Drivers at the Short-Time Motel (Penguin, 2000; a National Poetry Series selection and recipient of the Asian American Literary Award). He is the John Rabb Emison Professor of Creative and Performing Arts and English Professor at DePauw University.