Jay Hopler was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1970. Poet Louise Glück chose Hopler's "Green Squall" for the 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. Hopler's poems have also appeared in various literary journals, including Boulevard, Colorado Review, The Iowa Review, The New Yorker, and Ploughshares. He holds degrees from the John Hopkins Writing Seminars and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Hopler, who was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, currently lives and teaches at the University of South Florida.