David Wojahn is the author of six collections of poetry, Spirit Cabinet (2002), The Falling Hour, Late Empire, Mystery Train, Glassworks, and Icehouse Lights. He is also the author of Strange Good Fortune (2001), a collection of essays on contemporary verse. He is the editor (with Jack Myers) of A Profile of Twentieth Century American Poetry; he also edited The Only World, a posthumous collection of Lynda Hull?s poetry. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Illinois Arts Council, the Indiana Arts Commission, and the Breadloaf Writers? Conference, as well as writing residencies from the Yaddo and McDowell colonies. Among his other awards and honors are the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship, the Yale Younger Poets' Award for Icehouse Lights, the William Carlos Williams Book Award and the Celia B. Wagner Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Society of Midland Authors? Book Award, Vermont College?s Crowley/Weingarten Award for Excellence in Teaching, the George Kent Memorial Prize from Poetry magazine, and three Pushcart Prizes. He has taught creative writing and literature at a number of universities, including the University of Chicago, the University of Houston, and the University of Alabama. He is presently professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program at Indiana University, and a member of the faculty of the M.F.A. in Writing Program at Vermont College.