Nance Van Winckel is author of nine collections of poetry, including Our Foreigner, Pacific Walkers, and Book of No Ledge. Also the author of five books of fiction, she lives in Spokane, Washington, and teaches at the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program. She has received two National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowships, the Washington State Book Award, the Paterson Fiction Prize, the Poetry Society of America's Gordon Barber Poetry Award, and three Pushcart Prizes.