Sid Gold is the author of four previous collections: Working Vocabulary (Washington Writers' Publishing House, 1997 & 2021), The Year of the Dog Throwers (Broadkill River Press, 2010), Good With Oranges (Broadkill River Press, 2015) and Crooked Speech (Pond Road Press, 2018). He is a twice recipient of the Maryland State Art Council Individual Artist Award for Poetry and in 2019 he was voted among Baltimore's Best Poets in the Baltimore Magazine Reader's Poll. His poems have appeared in reviews, journals and anthologies for more than forty years. A native New Yorker, he has lived in Hyattsville, Maryland, for a number of years.
