Larissa Szporluk is author of two books of poetry: Dark Sky Question (Beacon, 1998), winner of the Barnard Poetry Prize, and Isolato (Iowa, 2000), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. In addition to receiving a 1998 Rona Jaffe Writers Award, her poems have been widely anthologized in The Best American Poetry 1999 & 2001 (Scribner), Best of Beacon 1999, and The New Young American Poets (Southern Illinois, 2000). She teaches creative writing at Bowling Green State University. (2002)