Robert Cording teaches English and creative writing at Holy Cross College in Massachusetts. He has published four collections of poems: Life-list, which won the Ohio State University Press/Journal award, in l987; What Binds Us To This World (Copper Beech Press, l991), Heavy Grace, (Alice James, l996), and Against Consolation (CavanKerry Press, (2002). He has received fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, twice from the Connecticut Commission of the Arts, and from Bread Loaf. In l992, he was poet-in-residence at the Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire. His poems have appeared in the Nation, Poetry, DoubleTake, Paris Review and The New Yorker.