Dana Levin's first book, In the Surgical Theatre, was awarded the 1999 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize and went on to receive many honors, including the 2003 PEN/Osterweil Award. A 2004 recipient of both a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress and an Emerging Woman Writer's Award from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Levin teaches in the MFA Program at Warren Wilson College and directs the Creative Writing Program at College of Santa Fe. Her latest book, Wedding Day, was published by Copper Canyon Press in May 2005.