
Caleb Braun’s debut book, The Invention of Irony, was selected by Rick Barot for the 2026 New American Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in POETRY, Best New Poets, The Gettysburg Review, Blackbird, The Cincinnati Review, Gulf Coast, 32 Poems, and others. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas, where he lives with his dog, Goldie (pictured on Welcome Page).