Karen Volkman is the author of Crash's Law, winner of the National Poetry Series, Spar, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and the James Laughlin Award, and Nomina, as well as a chapbook, One Might. Her work has appeared in over 30 anthologies, including American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and The Norton Introduction to Poetry. The recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, the Poetry Society of America, and the Bogliasco Foundation, she teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Montana in Missoula.