:: Karen Volkman's first book, Crash's Law, was selected for the National Poetry Series by Heather McHugh. Her new book, Spar, won the Iowa Poetry Prize and has just been published by the University of Iowa Press. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The New Republic, New American Writing, and Fence, and in anthologies including The Best American Poetry and New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology. Recipient of awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Society of America, and the Akademie Schloss Solitude, she is currently the Springer Poet-in-Residence at the University of Chicago.