David Wojahn is the author of two previous collections of essays on contemporary poetry and nine collections of verse, among them Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1983-2004, a Named Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and World Tree, winner of the Academy of American Poets’ Lenore Marshall Prize. His awards and honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for The Arts, and the O.B. Hardison Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library. He lives in Richmond Virginia, where he is Professor Emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University, and a faculty member of the MFA in Writing Program of Vermont College of Fine Arts.