Maurice Manning is a native of Danville, KY. He is the author of three books of poetry, Bucolics; A Companion for Owls (which is written in the voice of Daniel Boone); and Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions, winner of the 2000 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize. His poems have been published in Shenandoah, The Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry, and The New Yorker. He teaches creative writing at Indiana University in Bloomington.