Martha Rhodes is the author of three collections of poetry: Mother Quiet (Zoo Press, 2004), Perfect Disappearance (winner of the 2000 Green Rose Prize), and At the Gate (Provincetown Arts Press, 1995). Her poems have appeared in Agni, American Poetry Review, Fence, Ploughshares, and TriQuarterly, among other journals and in many anthologies including The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women, and The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is the director and founding editor of Four Way Books, a literary press based in New York City._________________________________
Finalists for the 2008 contest:
Nothing Beween Us, The Berkeley Years
Wendy Barker
SPICARESQUE
Yago S. Cura
Persons
Cifford Paul Fetters
Travel Plans for Social Outcasts
Lisa Lewis
Geographies of Light
Lisa Suhair Majaj
The Metaphysical Slot Machine
Peter Moore
Little Disruptions
Biljana D. Obradovic
Job Rides the L Train
Doug Ramspeck
For Ambidextra, the Tenth Muse
Lynn Sadler
HER and HIM, The Ambiguities of and
Bonnie Stanard
Indulgences
Michael Steffen
Tourist
S. Quinlan
