Patricia Traxler is the author of three collections of poetry including Forbidden Words (University of Missouri '94, and a novel, Blood (St.Martins, 2001-02), which was also published in the UK, as well as in Spanish, Swedish, and German translations. Traxler, a two-time Bunting Poetry Fellow at Radcliffe, served as '96 Hugo Poet at the University of Montana and '97 Thurber Poet at Ohio State. She is a past recipient of Ploughshares' Cohen Award, Nimrod'sPablo Neruda Award, The Writer's Voice of NYC Award for Short Fiction, the Hackney Literary Award for Short Fiction, and the Georgia State University Award for Short Fiction. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in such periodicals as Slate, Agni, The Boston Review, The Kenyon Review, Ms. Magazine, The Nation, Tikkun, Glimmer Train, The American Voice, The Lost Angeles Times, and New Letters, as well as in such anthologies as Best American Poetry '94 (ed. A.R. Ammons), A Handbook of Heartbreak (ed. Robert Pinsky), and A Ring of Words (ed. Andrew Motion). Her essays have appeared in Newsweek magazine as well as in such anthologies as Night Errands: How Poets Use Dreams (ed. R. Townley) and Grandmothers: Granddaughters Remember(ed. M. Bouvard). Traxler is completing her fourth collection of poetry, and beginning work on her next novel.