CORNELIUS EADY is Associate Professor of Literature at American University. Formerly director of the Poetry Center at SUNY/Stony Brook, and visiting Professor of Creative Writing at the City College of New York, his many honors include the Academy of American Poets' Lamont Award, and fellowships from the Rockefeller, Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest, and John Simon Guggenheim Foundations. The author of seven volumes of poetry, including Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, The Autobiographhy of a Jukebox, and Brutal Imagination, he is cofounder, with Toi Derracotte, of Cave Canem, which offers workshops and retreats to African-American poets. Eady lives with the novelist Sarah Micklem in Washington D.C.