Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Gregory Pardlo received an MFA from New York University. His collection Digest (Four Way Books, 2014) won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His debut, Totem (Copper Canyon Press, 2007), won the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. He teaches at Rutgers University–Camden. His memoir Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America (Knopf, 2018) recounts his father's work as an air traffic controller during the 1981 PATCO strike.
