Edward Mayes

Edward Mayes (formerly Edward Kleinschmidt) is the author of five books of poetry, including Speed of Life (1999); Works & Days (1999), winner of they AWP Prize in Poetry; and First Language (1990), winner of the Juniper Prize. He has published poems in the Southern Review, Poetry magazine, the New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and The Best American Poetry, with recent poems in the Kenyon Review, the Gettysburg Review, AGNI, Colorado Review, Southwest Review, Harvard Review, Blackbird, Boston Review, and Crazyhorse. He lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina, and Cortona, Italy, with his wife, the writer Frances Mayes. Their latest collaboration is The Tuscan Sun Cookbook (Random House/Clarkson Potter, 2012).