Ted Genoways is the author of three books of poetry—most recently Anna, Washing (University of Georgia Press, 2008), a selection for the VQR Poetry Series—as well as Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America’s Poet during the Lost Years of 1860-1862 (University of California Press, 2009). He was appointed the editor of VQR in 2003. (updated 7/2010)