About the Author

JANE MILLER is the author of nine previous collections of poetry, most recently A Palace of Pearls (2005). She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award. She lives in Tucson and teaches in the creative writing program at The University of Arizona, having served as the program's director from 1999 to 2003. BEVERLY PEPPER is a painter and sculptor. She has exhibited internationally, including one-person shows at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She divides her time between New York City and Todi, Italy. C.D. WRIGHT is the author of twelve books of poetry and the winner of several prestigious awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship.