Anne Pierson Wiese’s first poetry collection, Floating City (LSU, 2007) won the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award. She has been the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, and a “Discovery” / The Nation Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, the Hudson Review, Raritan, the Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, New England Review, and elsewhere.