David Roderick's first book, Blue Colonial, won the APR/Honickman Prize and
was published jointly by The American Poetry Review and Copper Canyon Press in 2006. He has published poetry and fiction in
several journals, including The Hudson Review, The Missouri Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, Verse,
and The Virginia Quarterly Review. After earning an M.F.A. at the University of Massachusetts, he spent two years as a Wallace
Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. He currently teaches poetry and creative writing in the MFA Writing Program
at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and he was recently named the recipient of the 2007-2008 Amy Lowell Travelling
Scholarship.