Elizabeth Spires is the author of six collections of poetry: The Wave-Maker (Norton, 2008), Now the Green Blade Rises (Norton, 2002), Swan’s Island (Carnegie Mellon, 1997), Worldlings (Norton, 1992), Annonciade (Puffin, 1989), and Globe (Wesleyan, 1981). She has also written five books for children, including The Mouse of Amherst (Scholastic, 2001). The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she lives in Baltimore and is a Professor of English at Goucher College.