Rehearsing Absence: Poems (Richard Wilbur Award, 4)
Rhina P. Espaillat, born in the Domincan Republic, once taught high school English in New York City. She now lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts, where she directs the Powow River Poets. She is the author of two previous collections of poetry: Lapsing to Grace (1992) and Where Horizons Go (1998), which received the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize. A past winner of the Howard Nemerov Award and the Sparrow Sonnet Award, her work has been published in many literary journals including Poetry, American Scholar, The Formalist, and Orbis.