Born in in 1966, Ed Pavlić has lived in England, Nigeria, France, Croatia, and a
baker's dozen of the United States. His second book of poems, Labors Lost Left Unfinished, will appear in 2006
with Sheep Meadow Press (University Press of New England). His book, Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue, won
The American Poetry Review / Honickman First Book Award in 2001. His study of African-American modernism, Crossroads Modernism,
was published in 2002 (U. Minn P). For five years, he worked as an itinerant construction laborer. He was the founding, managing
editor of The Madison Times, Madison, WI's black community's weekly newspaper. He has taught at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison, Indiana University, Union College. He now directs the MFA / PhD Program in Creative Writing, teaches
at the University of Georgia.
