Deborah Woodard’s first full-length collection, Plato’s Bad Horse, appeared in 2006 (Bear Star Press). In collaboration with visual artist and illustrator Heide Hinrichs, she published Hunter Mnemonics (2008, hemel press). She is also a translator and recently published the first selected poems in English of the distinguished and eclectic Italian poet Amelia Rosselli: The Dragonfly: A Selection of Poems, 1953-1981 (Chelsea Editions 2009). She holds an MA in Creative Writing from UNH and a PhD in English from the University of Washington. She teaches creative writing and poetics at The Richard Hugo House, a community literary center in Seattle, Washington.