W.F. Lantry, native of San Diego, received his Licence & Maîtrise from L'Université de Nice, M.A. from Boston University and PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston. He won the Paris/Atlantic Young Writers Award. Recent honors include the Lindberg Foundation International Poetry for Peace Prize (in Israel), Crucible Poetry Prize, CutBank Patricia Goedicke Prize, National Hackney Literary Award in Poetry, Atlanta Review International Publication Prize and in 2012 the Inspired by Tagore Publication Prize, Linnets Wing Audio Poetry Award, and the Old Red Kimono and Potomac Review Prizes. His work has appeared in The Wallace Stevens Journal, Descant, Asian Cha, Gulf Coast and Aesthetica. His chapbook, The Language of Birds (Finishing Line Press 2011), is a lyric retelling of Attar's The Conference of the Birds. The Structure of Desire is his first full-length collection. He currently works in Washington, DC.