Pattiann Rogers is the author of 12 books, most recently the essay collection The Grand Array: Writings on Nature, Science, and Spirit (Trinity University Press, 2010) and the poetry collection Wayfare (Penguin Poets, 2008). As poet in residence at the Milwaukee Zoo, she selected poems to be installed permanently throughout the zoo as part of The Language of Conservation, a nationwide project bringing poetry into zoos and libraries. Her poems appear in anthologies and textbooks including Verse and Universe: Poems about Science and Mathematics (Milkweed Editions, 1998), and The Measured Word: On Poetry and Science (University of Georgia Press, 2001). The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and other awards, she has taught writing at the University of Texas, the University of Montana, Washington University of St. Louis, Mercer University and the University of Arkansas.