Ann Lauterbach is the author of eight collections of poetry, including Hum; If In Time: Selected Poems 1975 – 2000; On a Stair; And For Example; Clamor; Before Recollection;  and Many Times, But Then.  She is also the author of several chapbooks and of a prose collection, The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience.  A contributing editor of Conjunctions,  she has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine C. MacArthur Foundation.  Since 1991 she has taught at Bard College, where she is David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Language and Literature.