Bob Hicokis associate professor of English at Virginia Tech University. He is the author ofThis Clumsy Living, Insomnia Diary,Animal Soul(a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award,)Plus Shipping,andThe Legend of Light. Hicok is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA Fellowships, the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Poetry Prize from the Library of Congress, the Felix Pollak Prize, the Jerome J. Shestack Prize, and four Pushcart Prizes. His poems have appeared in five volumes ofBest American Poetry.