Cornelius Eady, February 2007

Cornelius Eady is the author of Brutal Imagination, You Don't Miss Your Water, the Pulitizer Prize-nominated Gathering of My Name, BOOM BOOM BOOM, Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (the Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets), and Kartunes. His honors include the Strousse Award from Prairie Schooner and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation.