Jay Wright is a poet and playwright and lives in Bradford, Vermont.  Among his recent books are Polynomials and Pollen: Parables, Proverbs, Paradigms, and Praise for Lois (Dalkey Archive Press, 2008), The Presentable Art of Reading Absence (2008), Music’s Mask and Measure (Flood Editions, 2007), The Guide Signs: Book One (Louisiana State University Press, 2007), and The Guide Signs: Book Two (2007).  His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, and Yale University’s Bollingen Prize for American Poetry.