Honored by the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry, two Pushcart Prize selections, and reprinted multiple times by Harper's, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily, Gary Fincke has published fourteen previous poetry collections, five of which have won national book prizes. A prolific writer of fiction and nonfiction as well, his books of prose have won the Flannery O'Connor Prize for Short Fiction and the Robert C. Jones Prize for Nonfiction.