About the Author

Brigit Pegeen Kelly teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Her first volume of poetry, To the Place of Trumpets, was awarded the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize in 1987 and published by Yale University Press the following year. Her second book, Song, published by BOA Editions, Ltd., was the 1994 Lamont Poetry Selection from the Academy of American Poets and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Her work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies and she has been awarded many prizes and fellowships, including a Whiting Award, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Witter Bynner Prize from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and grants from the Illinois Arts Council and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.