Ann Townsend
Ann Townsend is the author of Dime Store Erotics (1998) and The Coronary Garden (2005). With David Baker, she is completing a collection of essays, The Radiant Lyre: On Lyric Poetry (forthcoming from Graywolf Press, 2007). Her poetry and criticism appear in such magazines as Poetry, The Paris Review, The Nation, Witness, The Georgia Review, and many others. An associate professor of English at Denison University, she lives in Granville, Ohio, with her husband and daughter.