Annie Boutelle teaches at Smith College, where she founded the Poetry Center. Her book-length sequence of poems based on the life of Celia Thaxter was a finalist for the 1999 Walt Whitman Award, the 2000 Kathryn Morton Award, and the 2002 Philip Levine Prize. She has published in The Green Mountains Review, The Hudson Review, Iris, The Larcom Review, Metamorphoses, Nimrod, Painted Bride, and Poetry.

About Beloit Poetry Journal:
Poets in this issue: Joel Friederich, Annie Boutelle, K. I. Press, Joseph Wood, Andrea Heny, Jeff Crandall, Elizabeth Kuhlman, Janice N. Harrington, Evie Shockley, Martha Carlson-Bradley, Ken Victor, Erika Mikkalo, Julianna Baggott, Emoke Pulay, Daneen Wardrop, Conrad Hillberry, Jason Labbe, Elizabeth Conrad VanBuskirk, Robert M. Chute