Yusef Komunyakka's eleven books of poems include Thieves of Paradise, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Neon Vernacular, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize. He teaches at Princeton University and lives in New York City.Tyagan Miller is a documentary photographer. His work has been published in Twilight in Arcadia, a book of photographs about migrant farm workers in the tobacco fields of southern Indiana, and Falling Toward Grace: Images of Religion and Culture from the Heartland (IUP, 1998). He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.Yusef Komunyakaa is distinguished senior poet at New York University. He has received numerous awards, including the William Faulkner… Prize (Universit� Rennes, France), the Ruth Lilly Prize for Poetry, and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His latest book is Gilgamesh, a verse play. He lives in New York City.