Jennifer Grotz - recipient of the 2007 New Writing Award for Poetry - is the author of
Cusp, which received both the Bakeless Prize for Poetry and the Natalie Ornish Best First Book of Poetry Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. Her poems, translations, essays and reviews have appeared in the
New England Review,
Ploughshares,
The Kenyon Review,
The Virginia Quarterly Review, and
Boston Review. She currently serves as the assistant director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and teachers poetry at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.