Melissa KwasnyMelissa Kwasny is the author of six collections of poems, including Pictograph, Reading Novalis in Montana, and The Nine Senses, which contains a set of poems that won the Poetry Society of America's 2009 Cecil Hemley Memorial Award. A portion of Picograph received the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, judged by Ed Roberson. Kwasny also has a nonfiction book, Putting on the Dog: Animals and Our Clothing, forthcoming from Trinity University Press. She has edited multiple anthologies, including Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry, 1800–1950 and, with M. L. Smoker, I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights. Widely published in journals and anthologies, Kwasny's work has appeared in Ploughshares, Boston Review, and The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral. She lives outside of Jefferson City, Montana, in the Elkhorn Mountains. Read More Read Less