Linda Gregerson’s books of poetry include the 2007 National Book Award-nominated, Magnetic North; Waterborne, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep; and Fire in the Conservatory. She is also the author of literary criticism, including Negative Capability: Contemporary American Poetry and The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic. Her many awards and honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, three Pushcart Prizes, and a Kingsley Tufts Award. She is Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she teaches creative writing and Renaissance literature.