Barbara F. Lefcowitz is the author of six books of poetry. Dancing Moon Press published her most recent book, A Hand of Stars, in 1999. Her stories, poems, articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications including Chicago Review, Prairie Schooner, The Minnesota Review, New Letters, The Florida Review and Lucid Stone. She was a finalist for the Elliston Poetry Prize, and has won Poetry Prizes from Skyline and Kansas Quarterly. She has received fellowships from the N.E.A., N.E.H., The Rockefeller Foundation and others. (2000)