Leon Stokesbury was the first winner of the Porter Fund Award for Literary Excellence. His books of poetry include Often in Different Landscapes (1976), The Drifting Away (1986), and Autumn Rhythm (1996), for which he won the Poets' Prize for 1998. In addition to editing the first and second edition of The Made Thing, he also edited Articles of War: A Collection of Poetry about World War II. Dr. Stokesbury currently teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Georgia State University in Atlanta.
