Jeanne Larsen's first book James Cook in Search of Terra Incognita, won the AWP award competition in poetry. She has since published three novels-- Silk Road, Bronze Mirror and Manchu Palaces--and two books of translations, Brocade River Poems: Selected Works of the Tang Dynasty Courtesan Xue Tao and Willow, Wine, Mirror, Moon: Women's Poems from Tang China. She teaches at Hollins University. A new book Why We Make Gardens, & Other Poems will be out in August 2010 from Mayapple Press.