Denise Duhamel is the author of 13 books and chapbooks. Her most recent publication is Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001). Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 2000. An assistant professor at Florida International University in Miami, she co-edited, with Nick Carbo, Sweet Jesus: Poems about the Ultimate Icon (The Anthology Press, 2002).