Liz Waldner is the author of Representation, Homing Devices and A Point Is That Which Has No Part, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and the Academy of American Poets Laughlin Prize for 2000. She has received the Poetry Society of America’s Robert M. Winner award; grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Lannan Foundation/Centrum and The Barbara Deming Money for Women Fund; and fellowships from the Djerassi Foundation, Hedgebrook, Vermont Studio Center, and MacDowell, among others. Her most recent book of poems is Self and Simulacra