Linda Gregerson was the seventeenth poet in the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series and read in 2012. A 2007 National Book Award finalist and recent Guggenheim Fellow, Linda Gergerson is the Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, where she teaches creative writing and Renaissance literature. She is the author of five books of poetry—most recently The Selvage (2012)—two books of criticism, and the co-editor of one collection of scholarly essays. Among her honors and awards are an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, the Kingsley Tufts Award, four Pushcart Prizes, grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Mellon, and Bogliasco Foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Poetry Society of America, and the National Humanities Center.