Tony Tost was born in Springfield, Missouri, in 1975 and raised in Enumclaw, Washington. He is a graduate of Green River Community College in Auburn, Washington, and College of the Ozarks in Pt. Lookout, Missouri. He has recently graduated with an MFA from University of Arkansas. Tost's book Invisible Bride (Louisiana State University Press, forthcoming in 2004) is the winner of the 2003 Walt Whitman Award. His poems have appeared in the literary journals Fence, Field, Spinning Jenny, Typo, Quarter After Eight, Goodfoot, Localist, can we have our ball back?, and others. He currently resides in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.