Luisa A. Igloria feels a close connection to Chicago in part because she met her husband there while in graduate school, and also because she is originally from Baguio City, designed by Daniel H. Burnham as a colonial hill station for the American government in the Philippines at the turn of the last century. Igloria is an Associate Professor in the MFA Creative Writing Program, Old Dominion University. Her most recent work includes Trill & Mordent (WordTech Editions, 2005), and Juan Luna’s Revolver, which received the 2009 Ernest Sandeen Prize for Poetry (University of Notre Dame Press). Awards include the 2007 49th Parallel Poetry Prize (selected by Carolyne Wright for Bellingham Review), the 2007 James Hearst Poetry Prize (selected by former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser) and the 2006 National Writers Union Poetry Prize (selected by Adrienne Rich). For more information visit www.luisaigloria.com