A 2009 National Poetry Series finalist, GIRL IN CAP AND GOWN is Harriet Levin's second book of poems. Her first, The Christmas Show, was selected by Eavan Boland for a Barnard New Women Poet's Prize and was a winner of the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award and a Grolier Prize. It was a Philadelphia Inquirer Notable Book. Her poems have appeared in publications such as Antioch Review, Cimarron Review, DENVER QUARTERLY, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner. She received her BA from Temple Universty and her MFA from the University