Lee Ann Roripaugh's first collection of poems, "Beyond Heart Mountain," was a 1998 winner of the National Poetry Series Award. She is the recipient of a 2003 Artist Fellowship from the Archibald Bush Foundation, the Randall Jarrell International Poetry Prize, and the Academy of American Poets Prize. Her poems have appeared in "Ploughshares, North American Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Crab Orchard Review," and in the anthology "Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation. "She is an assistant professor of English at the University of South Dakota.