Julia Kasdorf is the author of two books of poetry: Eve�s Striptease (Pittsburgh, 1998) and Sleeping Preacher (Pittsburgh, 1992), which received the 1991 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and the 1993 Great Lakes Colleges Association Award for New Writing. She is also the author of The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life (Johns Hopkins, 2001). She is Associate Professor of English and Director of the MFA program at Pennsylvania State University. (2001)