Kelli Boyles is a poet and a translator of French and ancient Greek literary texts. She is the recipient of a Mellon Fellowship for graduate study in the humanities, the Columbia University Humphrey Award in Creative Writing, and the Academy of American Poets’s Charles Wood and Fanny Fay Poetry Prize. In 2009 she was selected by Maxine Kumin for the National Poetry Prize of the Massachusetts Cultural Center at Cape Cod and shortlisted for the Ann Stanford, Bridport, and Fineline Awards. Her recent work appears or is forthcoming in the Bridport Anthology, eXchanges, and Mid-American Review, where two of her prose poems appear as Editors’ Choice selections in the new spring issue. (updated 4/2010)