Iain Haley Pollock is the author of the poetry collections Ghost, Like a Place (2018) and Spit Back a Boy (2011).  His poems have appeared in numerous other publications, ranging from American Poetry Review to The New York Times Magazine and The Progressive.  Pollock has received several honors for his work including the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the Alice Faye di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, and a nomination for an NAACP Image Award.  He currently serves as Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY.

"These poems in Pollock's collection are formed from myths we create—myths of our personal lives, our families, and myths about our nation. Within his lyric, the poet explores the complexities of violence in America, the dilemma of racial injustice, and the ways Americans treat one another by the value, or lack of value, we assign to each other's lives. His consciousness lives in the intersection between his personal identity as a biracial Black man and his national identity as a citizen/poet. His work exposes the internal conflict between our personal desires as individuals and our civic duty to society."
—Beth Brown Preston, World Literature Today

"Pollock’s poetry continues to grow alongside his life, each book reflecting the changes in his world and the world around him. Whether writing about race, fatherhood, or the shared landscapes of the Hudson Valley, his work captures the beauty and complexity of what it means to be human. In All the Possible Bodies, that honesty feels especially clear, a reminder that poetry can still help us see ourselves, and each other, with deeper understanding."
—Alexa Schwartzberg, River Journal

“In weaving resilience from the delicate fabric of the existential questions permeating the lives of African American men, All the Possible Bodies shimmers with a brilliance that allows the light of honesty and courage to penetrate the dense mass existent in the swirling of race and caste in America. Pollock is a brave poet, gifted with a voice that is the way of articulating his own body and soul while delicately tending to what gives life to all of us.”
—Afaa M. Weaver, author of A Fire in the Hills

"Pollock calls each of our names, and in doing so, promises that that song will keep at bay whatever Clearances may loom, many though they are today. This great, big “us” of All the Possible Bodies guarantees that our own bodies—every single one of them—hold mysteries and powers enough to face, and to overcome, the ruin and the wrack."
—Joseph Byrd, Bear Review

“Iain Haley Pollock is a gifted storyteller and All the Possible Bodies is an unflinchingly honest portrait of a mixed-race Black man, a father and teacher in contemporary America. Fed by the past, pitched toward the future, Pollock’s voice is one of abiding conscience. In deeply moving poems, he probes the ethical question, what it means to be good, and the existential one, what it is simply to be—scoring myths of the land and self we ‘know by heart’ and ‘stumble through.’”
—Shara McCallum