Linda Bierds has published seven books of poetry, including Flights of the Harvest-Mare; The Stillness, the Dancing; Heart and Perimeter; The Ghost Trio (a 1994 Notable Book Selection of the American Library Association); The Profile Makers (winner of the Pen West Poetry Prize); The Seconds; and First Hand (a 2005 Notable Book Selection of the Library Journal). Her upcoming collection, Flight: New and Selected Poems, will be published in October 2008. Bierds has won four Pushcart Prizes, the Virginia Quarterly Review’s 2005 Emily Clark Balch Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the Ingram Merrill, the Guggenheim, and the MacArthur foundations, and twice from the National Endowment for the Arts.† She is a professor of English at the University of Washington.