Catherine Bowman is the author of the poetry collections Notarikon, Rock Farm and 1-800-HOT-RIBS, winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She is the editor of Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR’s All Things Considered. Her poems have been published in many literary journals and magazines and have been selected for six editions of the Best American Poetry anthology. She is the Ruth Lilly Professor of Poetry at Indiana University in Bloomington.