Tory Dent, winner of the James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets, has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and a finalist in the Yale Series of Younger Poets, the National Poetry Series, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and the Walt Whitman Award. She has received a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, a Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grant, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, and three PEN grants for Writers with AIDS. Her previous Sheep Meadow Press book of poetry was HIV, Mon Amour (1999).