Ed Ochester's most recent book is The Land of Cockaigne (Story Line, 2001). Forthcoming is Unreconstructed: Poems Selected and New (Autumn House, 2007) and American Poetry Now (Pittsburgh, 2007), an anthology of contemporary American poetry. He edits the Pitt Poetry Series and the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, both from University of Pittsburgh Press, and co-edits the magazine 5 AM.