David Roderick’s first book, Blue Colonial, won the APR/Honickman Prize in 2006. After earning an M.F.A. at the University of Massachusetts, he spent two years as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. He currently teaches poetry and creative writing in the MFA Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and he was named the recipient of the 2007-2008 Amy Lowell Travelling Scholarship.