GARY FINCKE is a professor of English and the director of the Writer's Institute at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. He is the author of many collections of poems and short stories, including <i>The Stone Child: Stories and Writing Letters for the Blind, which won the 2003 Ohio State University Press/The Journal Poetry Prize. Fincke is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, the George Garrett Fiction Prize, and the PEN Syndicated Fiction Prize.