Poet, novelist, & essayist Jeanne Larsen’s most recent book, What Penelope Chooses: Poems, won the Cider Press Review Book Award. She is the author of two other books of poetry, Why We Make Gardens [& Other Poems], (Mayapple Press, 2010) and James Cook in Search of Terra Incognita (University of Virginia Press, 1979), as well as two of literary translations, Willow, Wine, Mirror, Moon: Women’s Poems from Tang China (BOA Editions, Ltd. 2005) and Brocade River Poems: Selected Works of the Tang Dynasty Courtesan Xue Tao (Princeton University Press 1987). She has also published an e-novel, Sally Paradiso (Brown Fedora Books 2009), and three print novels, Silk Road (1989), Bronze Mirror (1991), and Manchu Palaces (1996) (all, Henry Holt & Co, and others.). She was the inaugural Jackson Professor of Creative Writing at Hollins University.