Ed Pavlic’s collection, Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue won the 2001 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. His other books are Winner Have Yet to be Annouced (UGA Press, 2008), Labors Lost Left Unfinished (Sheep Meadow Press, 2006), and Crossroads Modernism (University of Minnesota Press, 2002). He directs the MFA/Ph.D Program in Creative Writing at the University of Georgia, and lives in Athens, Georgia.