James Reiss is the author of four poetry books, the most recent of which, Ten Thousand Good Mornings, was nominated for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize. His work has appeared in such places as The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review, plus many anthologies, textbooks, and Web sites. He has won numerous national and regional literary awards and grants. He is Professor of English and Editor of Miami University Press in Oxford, Ohio.