Hunt Hawkins is Professor Emeritus at the University of South Florida. Winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, his book, The Domestic Life, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Individual poems have appeared in Poetry, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Tri-Quarterly, Poet Lore, Plume, Epoch, and many other journals. He has lived in Norway, Myanmar, Tanzania, and Poland where he taught as a Fulbright Distinguished Professor at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In Tampa, he is active in local and state poetry groups and has served as President of several organizations, including the South Atlantic Modern Language Association.