Jean Hollander won the Eileen W. Barnes Award for her first book of poems, Crushed into Honey. Her second collection was a winner in the QRL Poetry Book Series. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies. Her verse translation (with Robert Hollander) of Dante’s Inferno and Purgatorio were published by Doubleday. Paradiso will be released this year. She has taught literature and writing at Princeton University, Brooklyn College, and other institutions. (updated 5/2007)