Carol Moldaw is the author of the lyric novel The Widening (Etruscan Press, 2008), as well as four books of poetry: The Lightning Field (2003), which won the 2002 FIELD Poetry Prize; Through the Window (2000); Chalkmarks on Stone (1998); and Taken from the River (1993). A recipient of a Lannan Foundation Marfa Writer’s Residency, an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize, Moldaw was born in Oakland, California, and lives outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, from where she teaches in the University of Southern Maine’s low-residency MFA program.