James Applewhite is the author of twelve books of poems, including Selected Poems and Quartet for Three Voices. Among the many honors he has received are the North Carolina Award in Literature, the Roanoke-Chowan Award, the Jean Stein Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and election to the Fellowship of Southern Writers. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he has been cited in Harold Bloom’s Western Canon and is featured in both V. S. Naipaul’s A Turn in the South and Will Blythe’s To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever. He lives in his native North Carolina, where he is a professor of English at Duke University.