Nathaniel Mackey’s books of poetry include Splay Anthem, which won the 2006 National Book Award in Poetry. He is also the author of an ongoing prose work, From A Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, of which three volumes have been published. He is the co-editor of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century (2000), and he edits the magazine Hambone. Mackey served as a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 2001 to 2007, and is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.