David Grundy is the author of A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) and Never By Itself Alone: Queer Poetry, Queer Communities in Boston and the Bay Area, 1944—Present (Oxford University Press, 2024) and coeditor, with Lauri Scheyer, of Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton (Wesleyan University Press, 2023). He co-runs the poetry small press Materials/Materialien.