Christina Pugh is a professor in the honors program at Emerson College and was a lecturer in literature at Harvard from 1998-2000. Her poems have recently appeared in Tar River Poetry, Hayden�s Ferry Review, Ekphrasis and elsewhere. She is a 2000 recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, sponsored by Poetry, as well as a winner of the Grolier Poetry Prize and an AWP �Intro� Award in poetry. Her poems appearing in this issue (number 4) are included in her manuscript entitled Rotary. (2001)