Katherine Soniat's third collection, A Shared Life, won the Iowa Poetry Prize, and also a Virgina Prize for Poetry. Notes of Departure was awarded the Camden Poetry Prize from the Walt Whitman Center for the Arts and Humanities. She is a recipient of a Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship, the William Faulkner Prize, and an Ann Stanford Prize. Her poems have appeared in such literary journals as The Nation, The New Republic, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly, Gettysburg Review, and TriQuarterly. An associate professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, she lives in Blacksburg, Virginia.

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Poets in this issue: John Balaban, Jody Bolz, Geoff Bouvier, Ray Bradbury, Anne Caston, Ed Cox, Sharon Doubiago, Lisa Glatt, David Hernandez, Rebecca Lu Kiernan, Kevin Killian, Linda Smukler, Cate Marvin, Kaia Sand, Barbara M. Simon, Denis Sivack, Katherine Soniat, Virgil Suarez, Todd Swift, Henry Taylor, Ryan G. Van Cleave, William Viant, James Wagner, Liz Waldner, Barrett Warner