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Rodney Jones received his BA from the University of Alabama and his MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His ten poetry books include Imaginary Logic, published in October, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Salvation Blues: 100 Poems, 1985-2005, which won the Kingsley Tufts Prize and was shortlisted for the Griffin International Prize; Elegy for the Southern Drawl, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; Things That Happen Once, a Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist; and Transparent Gestures, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Jean Stein Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Harper Lee Award for Lifetime Achievement by an Alabama writer, the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Excellence, and the Frederick Bock and George Kent Prizes from Poetry magazine, he has served on the creative writing faculties at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, the University of Cincinnati, and Virginia Intermont College. He lives in Southern Illinois.