Ray Gonzalez is the author of seven books of poetry, including Turtle Pictures (Arizona, 2000), which received the 2001 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry, and The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande (BOA, 2002). His poems were selected for The Best American Poetry: 1999 & 2000 (Scribner). He was Poetry Editor of The Bloomsbury Review for twenty years and founded Luna, in 1998. (2002)