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Haskins has published seven previous collections of poetry, most
recently The Rim Benders (Anhinga, 2001) and Extranjera
(Story Line, 1998). Her work has appeared in The
Atlantic Monthly, The Christian Science Monitor, The London Review
of Books, Beloit Poetry Journal, Georgia Review, Southern Review,
Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. She has been featured
on PBS in the United States and on BBC in England. Her awards
include two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts,
four individual artist fellowships from the state of Florida,
the Iowa Poetry Prize, and the Emily Dickinson/Writer Magazine
award from the Poetry Society of America. Ms. Haskins enjoys
collaborating with other artists. Recent examples include
performing Forty-Four Ambitions for the Piano with Kevin
Sharpe, a classical pianist, and James Paul Sain, an electro-acoustic
composer, and playing "the speaking Mata Hari" in a
ballet of that title for which she wrote the libretto. Ms.
Haskins' day job is teaching Computer Science at the University
of Florida. She lives in a house she built with her husband
on land outside Gainesville, where the locals include possums,
armadillos, deer, and Florida black bears.
