Deborah Brown is the author of Walking the Dog’s Shadow (BOA, 2011), her debut book of poetry for which she won the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize. She is also the editor, with Maxine Kumin and Annie Finch, of Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics (U of Arkansas Press, 2005), and translator, with Richard Jackson and Susan Thomas, of The Last Voyage: Selected Poems by Giovanni Pascoli (Red Hen Press, 2010). Brown teaches literature and writing at the University of New Hampshire-Manchester.