Joanna Goodman was awarded the Iowa Poetry Prize for her first collection, Trace of One (University of Iowa Press, 2002). She is also a recipient of the “Discovery”/The Nation Prize from the 92nd Street Y, and a Taylor Fellowship from the Kenyon Review’s Writer’s Workshop. Recent work by her has appeared in New Letters and Pool, and is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner and the Kenyon Review. She teaches in the English Program at Penn State Altoona.