:: Sherod Santos is the author of four books of poetry and is professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He was awarded the 1998 B. F. Connors Long Poem Prize from the Paris Review for "Elegy for My Sister" as well as Pushcart prizes in both poetry and essays. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, and The Yale Review, among others. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Ingram Merrill Foundations as well as the National Endowment for the Arts. Santos lives in Columbia, Missouri.