Wendy Mnookin is the author of four collections of poetry, including three from BOA: The Moon Makes Its Own Plea (2008), What He Took (2002) and To Get Here (1999). She has won a book award from the New England Poetry Club and a Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Mnookin teaches poetry at Emerson College and at Grub Street, a non-profit writing center in Boston. For more information about Wendy Mnookin, visit www.wendymnookin.com