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Nick Lantz is the author of two collections of poetry: We Don’t Know We Don’t Know (Graywolf Press, 2010), which won the 2011 GLCA New Writers Award for poetry, the 2010 Posner Book-Length Poetry Award, and the 2009 Bakeless Poetry Prize; The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House (University of Wisconsin Press, 2010), which won the 2010 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. His poems have appeared in Mid-American Review, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Poetry Daily, and FIELD, and have been featured on the nationally syndicated radio program The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor . He has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. He has taught creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop, Queens University of Charlotte Low-Residency MFA program, and Gettysburg College, where he was the 2010–2011 Emerging Writer Lecturer. He is a visiting assistant professor of English at Franklin & Marshall College. Photo by Vicky Lantz