Author: Maxine Scates

<b>Maxine Scates</b> is the author of three previous collections of poetry, <i>Undone</i>, <i>Black Loam</i>, and <i>Toluca Street</i>. She is coeditor, with David Trinidad, of <i>Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford</i>. Her poems have appeared widely in such journals as the <i>American Poetry Review</i>, <i>Agni</i>, the <i>New Yorker</i>, <i>Ploughshares</i>, and <i>Poetry</i>. Her poetry is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and the Oregon Book Award for Poetry.