Lola Haskins has published ten collections of poetry, including one from BOA Editions, Desire Lines: New & Selected Poems (2004). Her collection Still, the Mountain (Paper Kite Press), won the Silver Medal for Poetry in the 2010 Florida Book Awards. Her work has appeared in various journals including The Atlantic Monthly, The London Review of Books, and Prairie Schooner, and her awards include two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, four individual artist fellowships from the state of Florida, the Iowa Poetry Prize, and the Emily Dickinson/Writer Magazine award from the Poetry Society of America.  Haskins teaches Computer Science at the University of Florida.