Adrian Blevins’ The Brass Girl Brouhaha was published by Ausable Press in 2003 and won the 2004 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She received a Rona Jaffe Writers’ Foundation Award for poetry, the Lamar York Prize for Nonfiction and a Bright Hill Press Chapbook Award for The Man Who Went Out for Cigarettes (1996). She teaches at Colby College. Her poetry appears in Smartish Pace, Issue 14. [bio updated 2007]