Larissa Szporluk is a poet and professor of poetry at Bowling Green State University. She did her graduate studies at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the University of Virginia, where she received her MFA. Szporluk is the author of six books, including Dark Sky Question, winner of the Barnard Prize; Isolato, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize; and Virginals, winner of the Burnside Review Press Prize. Aiding the completion of those books were grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ohio Arts Council.