Nancy Eimers is the author of three collections of poetry, A Grammar to Waking (forthcoming in Oct. 2005, Carnegie Mellon University Press), No Moon, chosen by Ellen Bryant Voigt as winner of the 1997 Verna Emery Prize (Purdue University Press), and Destroying Angel (Wesleyan/University Press of New England, 1991).  She has been the recipient of a Nation “Discovery” award, two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing fellowships, and a 1998 Whiting Writers Award.  Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry By American Women, Best American Poetry 1996, Poets of the New Century, The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, Paris Review, TriQuarterly, Field and Poetry Northwest.  She teaches Creative Writing at Western Michigan University.