David Bottoms

A graduate of Mercer University with a Ph.D. from Florida State, David Bottoms currently serves as the John B. and Elena Diaz-Amos Distinguished Chair in English Letters at Georgia State University. His many awards include a Guggenheim, an Ingram Merrill Award, the Walt Whitman Award. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Paris Review, Harper's, The Atlantic, Poetry and many other journals, as well as his collections, including Under the Vulture Tree, Armored Hearts: New and Selected Poems, Vagrant Grace, We Almost Disappear and others. His two novels are Any Cold Jordan and Easter Weekend.