Sofia M StarnesSofia M. Starnes is the author of five poetry collections, including A COMMERCE OF MOMENTS (Pavement Saw Press, 2003), Fully into Ashes (Wings Press, 2011) and Love and the Afterlife (Franciscan University Press, 2012). She also hasjust completed an anthology, Four Virginia Poets Laureate, 2004-2012: An Anthology and Reader's Guide, compiled at the request of the Poetry Society of Virginia and forthcoming from Cedar Creek Press. In addition to a Fellowship from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, she has received numerous awards for her work, including the Aldrich Poetry Prize, the Transcontinental Poetry Editor's Prize, the Whitebird Poetry Series Prize, the Rainer Maria Rilke Poetry Prize, and the Virginia Writers Club Superior Achievement Award in Poetry. In 2009, she was designated a Distinguished Scholar by Union College (KY). She is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, and Who's Who of American Women. Sofia serves as Poetry Editor of the Anglican Theological Review and mentors other writers through her professional editing service, Creative Writing Critiques. In 2012, she was appointed Poet Laureate of Virginia by Governor McDonnell. Read More Read Less