ira sadoff is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Emotional Traffic, as well as the forthcoming Delirious: New and Selected Poems (Godine, 1997). He is also the author of a novel, Uncoupling, and a collection of stories, poems, and essays, An Ira Sadoff Reader. He has published more than two dozen stories in national literary magazines and a number of anthologies, including The O. Henry Awards. He teaches at Colby College and Warren Wilson College.