Originally from the Arkansas Ozarks, C. D. Wright lives in Rhode Island and is on the faculty at Brown University. She is the author of more than a dozen books and most recently, One With Others: a little book of her days in 2010, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her 2009 book Rising, Falling, Hovering won the 2009 International Griffin Poetry Prize. With photographer Deborah Luster she published One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, which won the Lange-Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.