Joshua Poteat has published one book of poems, Ornithologies (Anhinga Poetry Prize, 2006) and a chapbook, Meditations (Poetry Society of America, 2004), and his second book, Illustrating the Machine that Makes the World, is forthcoming from VQR/University of Georgia Press (Spring 2009). Over the last few years, he has won prizes from American Literary Review, Bellingham Review, Columbia, Hunger Mountain, Marlboro Review, Nebraska Review, River City, and many others. Poteat lives in Richmond, VA, where he works as an editor of assorted texts. For more information, go to www.joshuapoteat.com