Erica Dawson’s collection of poems, Big-Eyed Afraid (The Waywiser Press, 2007) won the 2006 Anthony Hecht Prize. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2008, Barrow Street, Birmingham Poetry Review, Blackbird,  Harvard Review, Literary Imagination, Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (7th edition), and other anthologies and journals. Erica is an assistant professor of English and Writing at University of Tampa, where she serves as poetry editor for Tampa Review and teaches in the university’s new low-residency MFA program.