Maggie Anderson is the author of numerous poetry collections and editor of several books and journals. Her most recent publication, Windfall: New and Selected Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000) won the Northern Ohio Live Award of Achievement. She has also been awarded four Pushcart Prize Honorable Mentions and an Ohioana Poetry Prize. Anderson earned a master’s degree in English and a master’s in social work from West Virginia University. She has taught at the University of Oregon, The Pennsylvania State University, Hamilton College, and the University of Pittsburgh and has served as Poet in Residence at over 30 locations. She is former coordinator of the Appalachian Writers’ Conference and the Marshall County Poetry Performing Arts Festival and has been awarded fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, the MacDowell Colony, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the West Virginia Arts and Humanities Commission, the Ohio Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Anderson is Professor of English at Kent State University, where she serves as coordinator of the Wick Poetry Program.