Scott Coffel is the author of Toucans in the Arctic, which won the Poetry Society of America’s 2010 Norma Farber First Book Award. A MacDowell Colony fellow in 2009, his poems have appeared in Salmagundi, Ploughshares, The Paris Review, The American Scholar, The Southern Review, and The Wallace Stevens Journal. He lives in Iowa City, where he directs The University of Iowa’s Hanson Center for Technical Communication. (updated 4/2012)