Robert Wrigley is the author of seven volumes of poetry, most recently Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems (Penguin, 2006). His book Reign of Snakes (1999) was selected for the Kingsley Tufts Award, and In the Bank of Beautiful Sins (1995) was winner of the San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award and Lenore Marshall Award finalist. Wrigley's awards and honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Idaho State Commission on the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation, as well as the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize, the Frederick Bock Prize from Poetry magazine, the Wagner Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Theodore Roethke Award from Poetry Northwest, and two Pushcart Prizes. From 1987 until 1988 he served as the state of Idaho's writer-in-residence. He has taught at Lewis-Clark College, at the University of Oregon, twice at the University of Montana, where he returned to hold the Richard Hugo Chair in Poetry, and at Warren College. He is currently the Director of the M.F.A. program in creative writing at the University of Idaho. Wrigley lives in Idaho with his wife, the writer Kim Barnes.