Erica Dawson’s first collection, Big-Eyed Afraid, won the 2006 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Best American Poetry 2008, and other journals and anthologies. Poems from her new manuscript, Cottontail, have appeared in Harvard Review, Raintown Review, and other publications. She is Assistant Professor of English and Writing at University of Tampa, and Poetry Editor of the Tampa Review.