KAREN SWENSON
Karen Swenson's new and selected poems, A Daughter's Latitude, was published in 2000 by Copper Canyon Press. Her previous volume, The Landlady in Bangkok, won the National Poetry Series Award. In 2001, she was the Rae Fox Distinguished Visiting Professor at Centenary College in Louisiana. She recently received a grant from the Lannan Foundation to write for two months at their Writers' Colony in Marfa, Texas.