Barbara Crooker is the author of more than 550 poems published in over 1550 anthologies, books, and magazines . Radiance, her first full-length book, won the 2005 Word Press First Book competition, and was a finalist for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize. Line Dance, her second book, is forthcoming from Word in December. Recently, Garrison Keillor read eleven of her poems on The Writer's Almanac, National Public Radio.