Kathleen Graber is the author of two poetry collections, including The Eternal City, finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Poetry. Her poems have been chosen for The Best American Poetry (2012, 2014) and The Pushcart Prize. She has been an Amy Lowell Travelling Scholar and a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, and has won fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Rona Jaffe Foundation. She directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Virginia Commonwealth University. During the summer months, she and her husband operate a small music shop on the Wildwood Boardwalk in New Jersey. (updated 9/2015)