Claudia Emerson (poetry) was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her book Late Wife: Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 2005). She is also the author of the poetry collections Pharaoh, Pharaoh, Pinion: An Elegy, Figure Studies, and Secure the Shadow (Louisiana State University Press, 1997, 2002, 2008, 2012 respectively). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Southern Review, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, New England Review, and other journals. They have been anthologized, among other places, in Buck and Wing: Southern Poetry at 2000; Strongly Spent: 50 Years of Shenandoah Poetry; and Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets of Virginia. Claudia Emerson is the recipient of a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, the Donald Justice Award for Poetry from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. She is Professor of English and Arrington Distinguished Chair in Poetry at The University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia.