Rae Armantrout has fifteen previous books include "Conjure," "Wobble," (finalist for a National Book Award), "Partly: New and Selected Poems," "Itself," "Just Saying," "Money Shot," and "Versed," which recieved a Pultizer Prize and a National Book Critics Circle Award. Her latest, and eleventh book published by Wesleyan, was, "Finalists." Armantrout is Professor Emerita of Writing at the University of California at San Diego. She has been published in many anthologies, including, "The Oxford Book of American Poetry," and Scribner's "Best American Poetry,"and in such magazines as, "Harpers," "The New Yorker," "American Poetry Review," "Boston Review," "Chicago Review," and the "Los Angeles Times Book Review." She lives in Everett, Washington.