B. H. Fairchild has received Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and NEA fellowships, and is the author of several books of poetry, including Local Knowledge (W. W. Norton), The Art of the Lathe (Alice James Books), Usher (W. W. Norton), and Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (W. W. Norton), which was given the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry and the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress. His poem, “Frieda Pushnik,” and essay, “Logophilia,” recently received Pushcart Prizes.