Sherod Santos is the author of four books of poetry including The Pilot Star Elegies (Norton, 2000), which was both a National Book Award Finalist and nominee for The New Yorker Book Award, and Accidental Weather (Doubleday, 1982), which was selected for the National Poetry Series. He received the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, the �Discovery�/The Nation Award, the Oscar Blumenthal Prize from Poetry, a Pushcart Prize in both poetry and the essay, and the 1984 appointment as Robert Frost Poet at the Frost house in Franconia, New Hampshire. (2001)