Steve Kronen is the author of two collections of poetry, including Splendor, published by BOA in 2006. His first book, Empirical Evidence (1992), won the Contemporary Poetry Series Competition. He has received fellowships from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, Breadloaf, the Florida Arts Council, and the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. For more information about Steve Kronen, visit www.stevekronen.com.