MARIE HOWE has described her own writing as “often trying to move into those silent places to what I can’t remember, to what I am told I shouldn’t remember.” Author of two collections, The Good Thief, chosen for the National Poetry Series, and What the Living Do, named one of the five best books of poetry published in l997 by Publishers Weekly, she is also co-editor (with Michael Klein) of In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic. Ms. Howe is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, as well as the I.B. Lavan Younger Poet Prize from the Academy of American Poets and the Mary Ingram Bunting Fellowship from Radcliffe College. She teaches in the graduate writing program at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City.