Annie Finch is a poet, writer, translator, speaker, teacher, and performer whose work centers on feminism and earth-based spirituality. She has published seven books of poetry, most recently Spells: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press). Annie’s books for poets, scholars, and poetry lovers include An Exaltation of Forms, The Body of Poetry, and A Poet’s Craft (all from University of Michigan Press) and Villanelles and Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters (both from Random House/Everymans Library). She is also editor of Choice Words (Haymarket), the groundbreaking anthology of literature about abortion. Educated at Yale, University of Houston, and Stanford University, where she earned her Ph.D, she has lectured at universities including Berkeley, Harvard, Toronto, Delhi, and Oxford. Annie’s work has been shortlisted for the Yale Series of Younger Poets and the National Poetry Series and received the Sarasvati Award and the Robert Fitzgerald Award for lifetime contribution to the art and craft of Versification.