photo: Sara Barrett

Poet and Critic Alicia Suskin Ostriker's collection The Little Space: Poems Selected and New, 1968-1998 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998) is a finalist for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Her other books of poetry include The Crack in Everything (1996), which was a National Book Award finalist and won both the Paterson Poetry Award and the San Francisco State Poetry Center Award; and The Imaginary Lover (1986), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America. Her poetry and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, the Nation, Paris Review and the New Yorker. In November the University of Michigan Press will publish Ostriker's Dancing at the Devil's Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics and the Erotic. She has written several other critical works, including The Nakedness of the Fathers: Biblical Visions and Revisions (1994) and Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America (1986).