Cynthia Huntington is the author of four books of poetry—Heavenly Bodies, a finalist for the National Book Award, The Radiant, The Fish-Wife, and We Have Gone to the Beach—as well as a prose memoir, The Salt House. A former New Hampshire State Poet Laureate, she is professor of English at Dartmouth College, where she serves as senior faculty in creative writing. She served as chair of the Poetry Jury for the Pulitzer Prizes in Poetry for 2006.