Christina Pugh’s first book of poems, Rotary, received the Word Press First Book Prize and is forthcoming from Word Press in the summer of 2004. She is also the author of a chapbook of poems, Gardening at Dusk (Wells College Press, 2002). Her poems have recently appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, Provincetown Arts, and in the anthology Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins. A recipient of the Grolier Poetry Prize, an AWP “Intro” Award, and Poetry magazine’s Ruth Lilly Fellowship, she is currently visiting assistant professor of English at Northwestern University.