Poet Linda Gregerson is a 2007 National Book Award finalist, a recent Guggenheim Fellow, and directs the master of fine arts program in creative writing at the University of Michigan. She is the author of several books of poetry and literary criticism, and her poems have appeared in publications including The Best American Poetry, Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, and TriQuarterly. Among her many awards and honors are an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, three Pushcart Prizes, and a Kingsley Tufts Award.