Alice Fulton is the author of six books of poetry, including Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems, Felt, Sensual Math, and Powers of Congress, as well as a collection of essays, Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry, and a book of connected stories, The Nightingales of Troy. She has received fellowships from the MacArthur foundation, the Guggenheim foundation, the Ingram Merrill fellowship, and the NEA. She is the Anne S. Bowers Professor of English at Cornell University,