About the Author

Andrew Hudgins, editor, is Humanities Distinguished Professor in English at The Ohio State University. His volumes of poetry includeAmerican Rendering- New and Selected Poems(2010),Ecstatic in the Poison(2003);Babylon in a Jar(1998);The Glass Hammer- A Southern Childhood(1994);The Never-Ending- New Poems(1991), a finalist for the National Book Award;After the Lost War- A Narrative(1988), which received the Poetry Prize; andSaints and Strangers(1985), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the author of a book of essays,The Glass Anvil(1997).