Henry Hart is the author of the biography James Dickey: The World as a Lie (Picador/St. Martin’s Press, 2000), as well as critical studies of Robert Lowell, Seamus Heaney, and Geoffrey Hill, and three books of poetry. His most recent poetry book, Familiar Ghosts, was published by Orchises Press in 2014. Hart was awarded the Carole Weinstein Prize in Poetry in 2010. He teaches English at the College of William and Mary.