BRIAN HENRY is the author of five books of poetry-- Astronaut (2000), American Incident (2002), Graft (2003), Quarantine, winner of the 2003 Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America (2006), and The Stripping Point (2007). An editor of Verse since 1995, he has reviewed poetry for numerous publications, including the New York Times Book Review, Boston Review, The Yale Review, and The Kenyon Review. He currently teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Richmond in Virginia.