Angie Estes is the author of four books, most recently Tryst, which was selected as one of two finalists for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including TriQuarterly, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Boston Review, and Slate. Her awards include a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize, as well as fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the American Academy in Rome. Estes is Professor of English in the MFA and Ph.D. Creative Writing Program at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, and is on the faculty of Ashland University’s low residency MFA program.