Donald Platt (Ph.D.,
University of Utah, 1995) is the author of two volumes of poetry published by Purdue University Press, Fresh Peaches, Fireworks, & Guns (1994), Cloud Atlas
(2002), and My Father Says Grace (2007). His fine-press, limited-edition chapbook Leap Second at the Turn of the Millennium was published in 1999 by the Center for Book Arts in New York City. His poems have appeared in many journals, including The New Republic, The Nation, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Southern Review,
as well as in The Best American Poetry 2000 and in The Pushcart Prize XXVII and XXIX (the 2003 and 2005 editions). He is a recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the
Paumanok Poetry Prize, the “Discovery”/The Nation Prize, two
Verna Emery Poetry Prizes, and the Center for Book Arts Chapbook Prize. An associate professor, he offers courses in the
writing of poetry at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
