Robin Behn is the author of three books of poems, Paper Bird (Texas Tech U. Press), The Red Hour (HarperCollins), and Horizon Note (U. of Wisconsin Press), and co-editor of The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets who Teach. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and her work has been selected for the Brittingham Prize, AWP Award Series in Poetry, the Pushcart Prize, and Best American Poetry. Behn is Professor of English at the University of Alabama where she teaches in the M.F.A. in Writing Program. She also teaches for the low-residency M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at Vermont College and serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP).