Peter Campion is the author of two collections of poetry, Other People (2005) and The Lions (2009), both from the University of Chicago Press. He also published a monograph on the painter Mitchell Johnson in 2004, with Terrence Rogers Fine Art. His poems and prose have appeared recently in ARTnews, the Boston Globe, Modern Painters, the New York Times, the New Republic, Poetry, Slate, and the Yale Review. Campion has received a George Starbuck Lectureship at Boston University, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship at Stanford University, a Pushcart Prize, and a Civitella Ranieri Individual Artist’s Fellowship. He is an assistant professor in the English Department at Auburn University and edits the journal Literary Imagination, which is published by Oxford University Press.