Denise Duhamel is the author of ten books, including THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER (winner of the Crab Orchard Award in Poetry, Southern Illinois University Press, 1999), EXQUISITE POLITICS (with Maureen Seaton, Tia Chucha, 1997), KINKY (Orchises, 1997), GIRL SOLDIER (Garden Street, 1996), and HOW THE SKY FELL (Pearl, 1996). She has been anthologized in THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY (1998, 1994, and 1993).