M. L. Liebler is an award-winning poet, literary arts activist, and professor. He is the author of several books of poetry, including Wide Awake in Someone Else's Dream (Wayne State University Press, 2008), and an editor of the ground-breaking anthology Working Words: Punching the Clock and Kicking Out the Jams (Coffee House Press, 2010). He is also editor of Bob Seger's House: An Anthology of Michigan Fiction (Wayne State University Press, 2016). He has taught at Wayne State University, USA since 1980.