Nance Van Winckel's fourth collection of poetry is Beside Ourselves (Miami University Press, 2003). She's received two National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowships and has new poems in The American Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, New Letters, The Massachusetts Review, and Poetry. She's also published three books of short fiction, most recently Curtain Creek Farm (Persea Books, 2000), and is the recipient of a 2005 Christopher Isherwood Fellowship. She teaches in the MFA programs at Eastern Washington University and Vermont College.

Other poems by Nance Van Winckel in Verse Daily:
June 24, 2005:  "When the River Comes Toward Me" "it comes with whatever it's..."
January 12, 2005:  "Awaiting the Return Ferry" "Ghostly, echoes of old guffaws from a crowd..."
July 13, 2004:  "Simone Weil at the Renault Factory (1935)" "A thread in a line of threads, she stands..."
January 9, 2004:  "Let me Remind You You Are Still Under Oath" "Out of marsh out of the bronchial..."
February 3, 2003:  "Passing Through the Shadows Of Great Buildings" "The beggar in plaid blankets wanted to kiss my hand..."
January 15, 2003:  "Cautionary Tale" "The funny bearded goat..."
January 6, 2003:  "Bid Me Be the Bird" "May the lower, liquid half of the world..."

About Crazyhorse:
Poets in this issue: Nicky Beer, Robert Bense, Jennie Berner, Paula Bohince, Katarzyna Borun-Jagodzinska, Karen Kovacik, Rick Bursky, Michael Chitwood, A. V. Christie, Peter Cooley, Mike Dockins, Lisa Fishman, Chris Forhan, Cameron K. Gearen, Olena Kalytiak Davis, Timothy Liu, James McKean, Susan Meyers, Mary Molinary, Debra Nystrom, Jennie Panchy, Bryan Penberthy, Eric Rawson, Young Smith, Katherine Soniat, Deborah Tall, Alpay Ulku, Nance Van Winckel, David Wagoner, Daneen Wardrop, Theodore Worozbyt