David Wojahn is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, including For the Scribe (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017); World Tree (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), the recipient of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; and Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems, 1982–2004 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the winner of the O. B. Hardison Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library. A professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, Wojahn lives in Richmond.