Marianne Boruch is a poet and essayist whose eleven books of poetry include Cadaver, Speak, and The Book of Hours, both from Copper Canyon Press. Her work has appeared widely in magazines and journals, including The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and Poetry. Among her honors are the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for The Book of Hours and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation. She founded the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Purdue University and remains on faculty at the low-residency graduate Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.