Liam Rector founded and directed the graduate Writing Seminars at Bennington College. His books of poems include The Executive Director of the Fallen World, American Prodigal, and The Sorrow of Architecture. The recipient of Guggenheim and nea fellowships in poetry, he also co-edited, with Tree Swenson, On the Poetry of Frank Bidart: Fastening the Poem to the Page and edited The Day I Was Older: On the Poetry of Donald Hall.