Annie Finch is the author of four books of poetry, Eve, Calendars (a finalist for the Forward Poetry Book of the Year Award) and The Encyclopedia of Scotland (Salt Publishing), as well as the definitive translation of the Complete Poems of Renaissance love poet Louise Labé. She has also published nine books about poetry, most recently The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self. She is a professor of English at the University of Southern Maine and director of the Stonecoast low-residency MFA program in creative writing. Poems and further information are available at her website, www.anniefinch.com.