W.F. Lantry, a native of San Diego, received his Maîtrise from L’Université de Nice and holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston. His poetry collections are The Structure of Desire (Little Red Tree 2012) and a chapbook, The Language of Birds (Finishing Line Press 2011). Recent honours include the National Hackney Literary Award in Poetry, Lindberg Foundation International Poetry for Peace Prize (Israel), and in 2012 the Old Red Kimono and Potomac Review Poetry Prizes. His work has appeared in Descant, Gulf Coast and Aesthetica. He currently works in Washington, DC, and is an associate fiction editor at JMWW. Visit his website for more information. [Read] [Cha profile]