Sandy McIntosh is a poet, memoirist, and the publisher and a founding editor of Marsh Hawk Press. He has written more than twenty books of poetry, memoir, and nonfiction, including Cemetery Chess and A Hole in the Ocean. He has also prepared modern English renderings of Nichiren Shoshu texts. His writing, including accounts of his years at the New York Military Academy alongside Donald Trump, has appeared in The New York Times, the Daily Beast, and elsewhere.