Alex Grant's books include The Poems of Wing Lei(Wind, 2012), The Circus Poems(2011 SIBA finalist), Fear of Moving Water(2010 Oscar Arnold Young and Brockman-Campbell awards runner-up), and Chains & Mirrors(2006 Randall Jarrell Prize and 2007 Oscar Arnold Young Award(Best Collection by a North Carolina poet.) A six-time Pushcart Prize and Best of the Web nominee, his work has also received the Pavel Srut Fellowship and the Kakalak Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in The Missouri Review, Best New Poets(2007), Arts & Letters, Smartish Pace, The Connecticut Review, Seattle Review, Pirene's Fountain, Verse Daily and many other national venues. He lives in Chapel Hill, NC, with his wife, his dangling participles and his Celtic fondness for excess.