David Roderick and his wife  spent 2008 traveling Florence and Dublin on the Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship. He is also a Wallace Stegner Writing Fellowship at Stanford University, and he has also been awarded fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. His poetry and fiction have appeared in more than 50 magazines and journals, including The Hudson Review, The Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, Triquarterly and The Virginia Quarterly. Last year his poetry manuscript, titled Blue Colonial, was runner-up in for the Yale Younger Poets Prize and recently won the American Poetry Review’s book prize and will be published by Copper Canyon Press in September 2006. He currently teaches creative writing at the University of San Francisco and Stanford University.