Delaware native ROBERT PHILLIPS is the author/editor of some thirty books of poetry, fiction, criticism, and letters. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Pushcart Prize and an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. Phillips writes poetry reviews for the Houston Chronicle and is the poetry editor of the Texas Review. Former director of the Creative Writing Program from 1991-1996, he currently teaches both poetry and fiction at the University of Houston, where he was named the John and Rebecca Moore Scholar in 1998.