David Rigsbee is the author of six collections of poetry, including Cloud Journal (2008), and The Red Tower: New and Selected Poems (2008). He co-edited Invited Guest: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Southern Poetry (University of Virginia Press, 2001) and is the author of critical works on Carolyn Kizer and Joseph Brodsky. He is the recipient of grants and awards from the NEA, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the VA Commission on the Arts, and the Academy of American Poets.