Daneen Wardrop is the author of two books of poetry, The Odds of Being and Cyclorama, with a third, Life as It, forthcoming later this year. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Poetry Society of America Robert H. Winner Award, and her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, Southern Review, AGNI, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. She has also authored several books of literary history.