Christina Pugh is the author of four books of poems: Perception (Four Way Books, forthcoming in 2017), Grains of the Voice (Northwestern University Press, 2013), Restoration (Northwestern University Press, 2008), and Rotary (Word Press, 2004), which received the Word Press First Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, and many other periodicals. In 2015, she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry, as well as a Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship. Her previous awards have included the Lucille Medwick Award from the Poetry Society of America, a poetry fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council, and the Grolier Poetry Prize. Her critical articles have appeared in Poetry, The Emily Dickinson Journal, Literary Imagination, and the Cambridge Companion to Poetry Since 1945, among other publications. She is a professor in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and consulting editor for Poetry magazine.