Betty Adcock is the author of five books of poems, most recently Intervale: New and Selected Poems, finalist for the Lenore Marshall Prize and co-winner (with Caroline Kizer) of the 2003 Poets' Prize. Adcock has won two Pushcart Prizes, in addition to the North Carolina's Governor's Medal for Literature and the Texas Institute of Letters Prize. A 2002-2003 Guggenheim Fellow, she teaches at Meredith College and at the Warren Wilson M.F.A. Program for Writers.