Winner of eight Pushcart Prizes and the Library of Congress Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt Prize for This Clumsy Living Recognized by the National Book Critics Circle and has been selected for inclusion in nine volumes of the Best of American Poetry Recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and one Guggenheim Fellowship Professor at Virginia Tech Author of eleven previous collections, four of which were published with Copper Canyon Press Known for writing with dark humor and cynicism Potential audiences: fans of literature with a distinctly "American" perspective, readers from the Midwest, readers who seek books that speak to serious themes of suicide, depression, miscarriage, and complex/failed marriages