David Wagoner has published eighteen books of poems, most recently A Map of the Night (University of Illinois Press), and ten novels, one of which, The Escape Artist, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), was made into a movie by Francis Ford Coppola. He won the Lilly Prize in 1991 and has won six yearly prizes from Poetry (Chicago). He was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets for twenty-three years. He has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and twice for the National Book Award. He edited Poetry Northwest from 1996 to its end in 2002. He is professor emeritus of English at the University of Washington and teaches in the low-residency MFA program of the Whidbey Island Writers Workshop.