Department of English at the University of Virginia

Books

• Bad River Road (forthcoming, Sarabande Books, 2009)
• Torn Sky, Sarabande Books, 2003
• A Quarter Turn , Sheep Meadow Press, 1991

Poems Published In

Agni Review, American Poetry Review,  Boston Review,  Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Five Points, Michigan Quarterly Review, Lyric, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, Shenandoah, Seneca Review, Slate, Southwest Review, The Threepenny Review, TriQuarterly,  The Virginia Quarterly Review, Yale Review, and elsewhere.

Anthologized Work in

• Best American Poetry 2008, Scribner, 2008
• When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poems by American Women, Autumn House Press, 2008
• Red, White and Blues: Poetic Vistas on the Promise of America, University of Iowa Press, 2004
• Strongly Spent: Fifty Years of Shenandoah, Shenandoah, 2004
• Common Wealth, University of Virginia Press, 2003
• Birthday Poems, Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2002
• Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America, University of Iowa Press, 2002
• Acquainted With the Night, Columbia University Press, 1999
• The Sheep Meadow Anthology, Sheep Meadow Press, 1999
• More Light, National Writer’s Voice Project, Harcourt Brace Publishers, 1994

Current Projects

• On the Bluff: Land, Family, Race and Law (memoir)
• The Capacity to be Alone: the Lyric Poem (essays)

Honors and Awards

• Virginia Commonwealth University, Cabell Memorial Reading and Panel, 2008
• James Dickey Prize in Poetry, Five Points Magazine, 2007
• University of Virginia Arts Research Grant, 2006
• “American Life in Poetry” feature, Poetry Foundation, October 2005
• Library of Virginia Poetry Prize, 2004
• Writers’ Almanac feature, A Prairie Home Companion, September 2004; May 2004
• PoetryNet Poet of the Month, April 2004
• Shepard Memorial Visiting Writer, University of Wyoming Conference on Social Justice, 2004
• Heart/Borders Poetry Prize, 2002
• Lantern Society Award for Women’s Education, 2002
• James Boatwright Prize for Poetry, Shenandoah Magazine: 2000 and 1994
• Pushcart Prize nominations: 2004, 2003, 1990, 1988, 1985, 1984
• Virginia Commission for the Arts Individual Fellowships in Poetry: 1997 and 1987
• Balch Prize for Poetry, Virginia Quarterly Review, 1991