Daneen Wardrop is the author of a book of poetry, The Odds of Being, and has received an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, the Poetry Society of America Robert H. Winner Award, the Bentley Prize for Poetry from Seattle Review, and the Gerald Cable Book Award. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, AGNI, Iowa Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. In addition, she has authored three books of literary criticism, including Emily Dickinson and the Labor of Clothing (University Press of New England).