John Irwin teaches graduate and undergraduate poetry workshops and courses in literature. He is the author of several works of literary criticism, most recently F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction: "An Almost Theatrical Innocence". Writing as John Bricuth, Irwin is the author of three volumes of poetry, The Heisenberg Variations (JHU Press), Just Let Me Say This About That (Overlook Press), and As Long As It’s Big (JHU).