Winner of the 1998 Colorado Prize for Poetry
Michael White was educated at the University of Missouri and the University of Utah. His poems have appeared in a variety of magazines, including the New Republic, the Paris Review, and Ploughshares. His first collection of poetry, The Island, appeared in 1992, and he has been anthologized in The Best American Poetry. A recipient of fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, White teaches at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.