Alex Grant is the author of Chains & Mirrors (NCWN/Harperprints, 2006), winner of the 2006 Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize and the 2007 Oscar Arnold Young Award (best collection by a North Carolina poet), and The White Book (Main Street Rag, 2008). He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His poetry appears in Smartish Pace, Issue 16 (2009).