Susan Mitchell is the author of two books of poems, including Rapture, which won the first Kingsley Tufts Award and was a National Book Award finalist. She has received grants from the Guggenheim and Lannan foundations. She is currently at work on a third book of poems and a book of essays to be published by HarperCollins. She lives in Boca Raton where she is a professor in the English department of Florida Atlantic University. (1996)