Beth Ann Fennellydirects the MFA Program at Ole Miss and lives in Oxford with her husband and three children. She has won grants from the N.E.A., the MS Arts Commission, and United States Artists. Her work has three times been included inThe Best American Poetry series. Fennelly has published three full-length poetry books. Her first, Open House, won The 2001 Kenyon Review Prize, the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award, and was a Book Sense Top Ten Poetry Pick. It was reissued by W. W. Norton in 2009. Her second book, Tender Hooks, and her third, Unmentionables, were published by W. W. Norton in 2004 and 2008. She has also published a book of nonfiction, Great with Child, in 2006, with Norton.