This portfolio marks the arrival of Annie Finch, who has just moved to Washington, DC. Her six books of poetry include Spells: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2013), Calendars (Tupelo Press, 2003, shortlisted for the Foreword Poetry Book of the Year Award), and Eve (Story Line Press, 1997, finalist for the National Poetry Series and Yale Series of Younger Poets, reprinted in the Carnegie Mellon University Press Classic Contemporaries Series, 2010). Her work has appeared onstage at Carnegie Hall and in The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Finch is also the author or editor of numerous books about poetry, including A Poet’s Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2012), The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women Form, and the Poetic Self (University of Michigan Press, 2005), and A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women (Story Line Press, 1994). Her verse play Among the Goddesses: An Epic Libretto in Seven Dreams received the Sarasvati Award for Poetry, and in 2011 she received the Robert Fitzgerald Award for her lifetime contribution to the field of prosody and verse. She has just completed a book of nonfiction, The Witch in You, and is currently editing an anthology of writings on abortion. She teaches on the low-residency MFA faculty at St. Francis College in Brooklyn and lives in Washington, DC.