Alex Grant's Chains & Mirrors  won the 2007 Oscar Arnold Young Award(Best North Carolina poetry collection) and the 2006 Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize. The White Book was released in 2008 and Fear of Moving Water, a finalist for a number of national book contests, was released in 2009. The Circus Poems will be released in fall 2010. A Pushcart nominee, he has received the Kakalak Poetry Prize and The Pavel Srut Poetry Fellowship, and his poems have appeared in many national journals, including The Missouri Review, Best New Poets 2007, Arts & Letters, The Connecticut Review and Verse Daily.  He lives in Chapel Hill NC, with his wife, his dangling participles and his Celtic fondness for excess. He can be found on the web at www.redroom.com/author/alex-grant.