David Kirby
David Kirby is the author of more than 20 books, including most recently two collections of poetry, The Ha-Ha (LSU, 2003) and I Think I Am Going to Call My Wife Paraguay: Selected Early Poems (Orchises Press, 2004). His poems have been published in volumes of The Best American Poetry series and The Pushcart Prize Anthology. He is a recipient of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other honors. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida, where he is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University.