Donald W. Faulkner has published two collections of poems, At Dunkard Creek and In Dyers Wood, and edited many books of writings by eminent literary critic Malcolm Cowley, including The Flower and the Leaf (Viking,1986), The Portable Malcolm Cowley (Penguin, 1990), The Penguin 20th Century Classics edition of Exile’s Return (1994), New England Writers and Writing (University Press of New England, 1996), and William Kennedy (State University of New York Press, 2008). His work has appeared in publications as diverse as Vanity Fair and Sewanee Review, and he appeared as a featured commentator in the A&E Biography/Crisman Films production, The Lost Generation and the PBS/TV France production, Paris: The Luminous Years.  Faulkner has worked as a writer-in-residence at the Connecticut Hospice and has taught creative writing and literature at Yale University. He has been recipient of the Connecticut Commission on the Arts Award for writing and fellowships and awards from The Newberry Library, The Connecticut Humanities Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Danforth Foundation, and the Society for Values in Higher Education. Faulkner is Associate Professor of English and Theatre at the University of Albany and the director of the New York State Writers Institute.