Tas Tobey is a poet and writer pursuing an MFA in poetry at the City College of New York. His chapbook of of poems, Rough Cut, was selected by Alicia Mountain as the winner of the 2023 Flume Press Chapbook Contest and his poetry has appeared in Ghost City Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, Eunoia Review, The Carson Review and elsewhere. His criticism and reporting has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and Complex. He works on the staff of The New York Times Book Review and lives in Brooklyn.