Barbara Crooker is the author of ten chapbooks, two of which won prizes in national competitions: Ordinary Life (ByLine, 2001) and Impressionism (Grayson Books, 2004). Radiance, her first full-length book, won the 2005 Word Press First Book competition, and was a finalist for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize. Line Dance, her second book, is forthcoming from Word in December. Recently, Garrison Keillor read eleven of her poems on The Writer's Almanac, National Public Radio. She is the recipient of numerous prizes including the 2006 Ekphrastic Poetry Award from Rosebud, the 2004 WB Yeats Society of New York Award, and the 2004 Pennsylvania Center for the Book Poetry in Public Places Poster Competition. She’s received three Writing Fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. and eleven residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her poems appear in anthologies, books, and magazines such as Yankee, The Christian Science Monitor, Smartish Pace, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Nimrod, and The Denver Quarterly. She was nominated for  a 1997 Grammy for her part in the audio version of the popular anthology, Grow Old Along With Me--The Best is Yet to Be (Papier Mache Press).  http://www.barbaracrooker.com/              info@barbaracrooker.com