Anne Boyer is a poet, artist, and essayist. Her works include The Undying, Garments Against Women, and A Handbook of Disappointed Fate. Her honors include a Pulitzer Prize, a Windham-Cambell prize, the Cy Twombly Award for Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Judith Wilson Fellowship in Poetry at Cambridge, the CLMP Firecracker award in poetry, and a Whiting award. Originally from central Kansas, Boyer now lives in coastal Scotland and teaches at the University of St. Andrews.