Ada Limón is originally from Sonoma, California. She received her MFA from New York University. She has received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and won the Chicago Literary Award for Poetry from ACM. Her work appears in numerous magazines, including The Iowa Review, Slate, Watchword, Poetry Daily, Tarpaulin Sky, LIT, Painted Bride Quarterly, and others. Her first book, lucky wreck, is forthcoming by Autumn House Press in February of 2006.