Cynthia Huntington is the author of a prose memoir and four books of poetry, including Heavenly Bodies (SIU Press), a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. A Guggenheim Fellow, she has also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Vermont Arts Council. A former poet laureate of New Hampshire, she is the Frederick Sessions Beebe Professor in the Art of Writing at Dartmouth College and teaches in the MFA Writing Program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.