Betty Adcock is the author of five books of poems from LSU, most recently Intervale: New and Selected Poems, which was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Prize and winner of the 2003 Poets’ Prize. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2001-2002, and in 2005 she was awarded the Hanes Prize by the Fellowship of Southern Writers. She teaches at Meredith College and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Her poetry appears in Smartish Pace, Issue 12.