Fanny Howe is the author of many books of poetry and prose, including The Needle’s Eye: Passing through Youth, The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation, The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life, and Radical Love: Five Novels. Her most recent collection of poetry, Second Childhood, was a finalist for the 2014 National Book Award. Her work in fiction was recognized as a finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. She received the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation for lifetime achievement, and she has won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets and the Gold Medal for Poetry from the Commonwealth Club of California. She lives in New England.