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Glyn Maxwell was born in England in 1962 and took a degree in English at Oxford University. He then received a scholarship to Boston University where he studied poetry and theater with Derek Walcott. He has been the poetry editor at the New Republic since 2001 and his more recent books include The Sugar Mile, The Breakage, Time’s Fool: A Tale in Verse, and The Nerve. Maxwell is also a playwright, novelist, and an opera librettist.