J.D. Debris is a poet, fiction writer, and musician. He is the author of The Scorpion's Question Mark (Autumn House Press, 2023), winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize. He was a Goldwater Fellow at New York University, where he earned his MFA. His work has received further awards from DISQUIET, Mass Poetry, Narrative, and Ploughshares. He is a visiting lecturer at Endicott College and Salem State University in Massachusetts.