About the Author
GRACE BAUER, a native of Pennsylvania, came to Nebraska by way of New Orleans, Montana, Massachusetts, and Virginia. She is the author of Where You've Seen Her (Pennywhistle Press, 1993) and The House Where I've Never Lived (Anabiosis P, 1993), and The Women at the Well (Portals Press, 1997). Her most recent book is Field Guide to the Ineffable: Poems on Marcel Duchamp, which won the 1999 Snail's Pace Press Chapbook Competition. She received her MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts, where she won the Academy of American Poets Prize. Her other awards include an Individual Artist's Grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, a Diggs Teaching Scholar Award and Women's Research Institute Grant from Virginia Tech, the Irene Leache Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her poetry has appear in DoubleTake, Poetry, South Dakota Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Southern Poetry Review, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. She has taught at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln since 1994, where she also serves as a reader for Prairie Schooner.