Nancy Kuhl published her first poetry collection, In the Arbor, with Kent State University Press in 1997. Her manuscript Slip was a finalist in the New Issues Poetry contest in 2000 and a semifinalist for the Verse Press book prize last year, and her manuscript The Wife of the Left Hand was semifinalist in the University of Wisconsin and Alice James Press poetry contests. Her poems have also appeared or are forthcoming in many literary magazines, and she is co-editor of Phylum Press, a small poetry publisher. (updated 11/2003)