C. K. Williams, one of the most esteemed living American poets, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for his collection Repair. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University. His most recent Collected Poems was published by Bloodaxe in 2007. He has published nine other books of poetry, the most recent of which, The Singing, won the National Book Award for 2003. He has published translations of Sophocles’ Women of Trachis, Euripides’ Bacchae, and poems of Francis Ponge, among others.  His book of essays, Poetry and Consciousness, appeared in 1998, and a memoir, Misgivings, in 2000.  Among his awards he counts an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, and a Pushcart Prize. A native of Newark, New Jersey, he now divides his time between Princeton and Paris.