Pamela Alexander�s third collection of poems, Inland (Iowa, 1997), won an Iowa Poetry Prize; her first, Navigable Waterways (1985), won the 1984 Yale Younger Poet award. Commonwealth of Wings (1991), a sequence in the persona of John James Audubon, was published by Wesleyan University Press. She was a contributing poetry editor for the Boston Book Review from 1993 until 2000. She teaches and co-directs the Creative Writing Program at Oberlin College. (2002)
