Daneen Wardrop has authored four books of poetry: The Odds of Being (Silverfish Review Press, 2008), Cyclorama (Fordham University Press, 2014), Life as It (Ashland Poetry Press, 2016), and Silk Road (Etruscan Press, 2018). Her work has appeared in The Iowa Review, AGNI, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Award, a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and the 2006 Poetry Society of America Robert H. Winner Award. She is a Professor of English at Western Michigan University.