Author Description

A new full-length collection of poetry from Ned Balbo, the author of The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems (awarded the Poets¿ Prize and the Donald Justice Prize), Lives of the Sleepers (Ernest Sandeen Prize and ForeWord Book of the Year Gold Medal), Galileo¿s Banquet (Towson University Prize co-winner), and Upcycling Paumanok. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowship, three Maryland Arts Council grants, the Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award, and the John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize, he has held fellowships or residencies at the Sewanee Writers¿ Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.