Maggie Dietz’s is the author of the newly released That Kind of Happy and Perennial Fall, which won New Hampshire’s Jane Kenyon Award for Outstanding Book of Poetry in 2007 (both from The University of Chicago Press). The former director of the Favorite Poem Project, Dietz is coeditor of three anthologies related to the project: American's Favorite Poems, Poems to Read, and An Invitation to Poetry. Her awards include the Grolier Poetry Prize, the George Bennett Fellowship at Phillips Exeter Academy, as well as fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. Her work appears widely in journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, Agni, and Salmagundi. She teaches at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.