Beth Ann has received grants from the State of Illinois Arts Council and the NEA. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and the Wood Award for Distinguished Writing from The Carolina Quarterly and residencies at the University of Arizona, MacDowell, and Breadloaf. Her poems have been published in TriQuarterly, Shenandoah, The Georgia Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The American Scholar, and Poetry Ireland Review. Her poems have been reprinted in Best American Poetry 1996, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet and Poets of the New Century. Her first full length book, Open House, won The 2001 Kenyon Review Prize for Poetry, the GLCA New Writers Award, and was a Book Sense Top Ten Poetry Pick. Her second book, Tender Hooks, was published by W. W. Norton in April, 2004. Barbara Claire Freeman