Alice Fulton is the author of six books of poetry--including the 2004 publication of *Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems*--as well as a collection of linked stories, *The Nightingales of Troy*, and a collection of essays, *Feeling as a Foreign Language.*

Her many awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Michigan Society of Fellows, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is also the recipient of the 2002 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress. Currently, she is the Ann S. Bowers Professor of English at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.