Eric Falci is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 1966-2010 (2012), The Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry, 1945-2010 (2015), and The Value of Poetry (2020). With Paige Reynolds, he is the co-editor of Irish Literature in Transition, 1980-2020 (2020). His first book of poetry, Late Along the Edgelands, appeared in 2019.