Patricia Kirkpatrick is the author of Century’s Road, poetry chapbooks, and books for young readers. Recent work appears in the anthologies She Walks in Beauty, The Poets Guide to the Birds, and Robert Bly in This World. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Bush Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, and Loft-McKnight, she is poetry editor of Water-Stone Review. Her interviews with poets, including Adrienne Rich, Brenda Hillman, Li-Young Lee, and Sharon Olds, are published widely; in 2001 she interviewed W. S. Merwin onstage at the University of Minnesota. (updated 6/2011)