Instructions at Sunset

Geraldine Connolly is the author of four earlier poetry books, Food for the Winter, Province of Fire, Hand of the Wind, and Aileron. Her work has appeared in a variety of literary journals, including Poetry, Shenandoah, the Georgia Review, and the Gettysburg Review. She is the recipient of two NEA fellowships, a Maryland Arts Council fellowship, and a Cafritz Foundation grant. Her work has been broadcast on WPFW radio and featured on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac. She was executive editor of Poet Lore from 1994 to 2000 and has taught workshops for the the Maryland Poetry-in-the-Schools Program and the Graduate Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC. She now lives in Alameda, California.