Ann Townsend

Ann Townsend is the author of Dime Store Erotics (1998) and The Coronary Garden (2005). She is the editor with David Baker of Radiant Lyre: Essays on Lyric Poetry (2008). Her poetry and criticism appear in such magazines as Poetry, Paris Review, The Nation, Witness, and The Georgia Review. She is professor and director of creative writing at Denison University.