Michael D. Snediker Michael D. Snediker is the author of three books of poetry — The Apartment of Tragic Appliances, The New York Editions, and Jones Very (forthcoming) — as well as Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood & Other Felicitous Persuasions and Contingent Figure: Chronic Pain & Queer Embodiment. He is a professor of American literature and poetics at the University of Houston.