Ron Wallace is the author of twelve books of poetry, fiction, and criticism including For a Limited Time Only (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008) and Long for This World: New and Selected Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003). He is co-director of the creative writing program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and editor of the University of Wisconsin Press Poetry Series, which awards the Brittingham and Felix Pollak Poetry Prizes.  

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