Gail Mazur’s most recent collection of poems is Figures in a Landscape (University of Chicago Press). She is the author of five other books of poetry, including Zeppo’s First Wife: New and Selected Poems, which won the Massachusetts Book Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and They Can’t Take That Away From Me, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her poems have appeared in Pushcart anthologies, The Best American Poetry, and Poems to Read. A former fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, she teaches in the graduate writing program at Emerson College, and lives in Cambridge and Provincetown, MA.