Paul Guest is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge (Ecco, 2010), and a memoir, One More Theory About Happiness (Ecco, 2010). His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, New England Review, North American Review, and elsewhere. A John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and Whiting Award winner, he teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Virginia.  

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