TED KOOSER's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Hudson Review, Antioch Review, Kenyon Review, Shenandoah and dozens of other literary journals. Kooser has won the Hugo Prize from Poetry Northwest, the Kunitz Prize from Columbia, and two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. He has published eight full-length collections of poetry and a number of chapbooks and special editions. He lives on an acreage near the village of Garland, Nebraska.