David Starkey is the editor of, and contributor to, two collections on teaching writing: Genre By Example: Writing What We Teach (Boynton/Cook-Heinemann, 2001) and Teaching Writing Creatively (Boynton/Cook-Heinemann, 1998). He is also the author of a textbook, Poetry Writing: Theme and Variations (NTC, 1999), and numerous collections of poetry. (2002)