Gardner McFall

A native Floridian and Navy junior, Gardner McFall is the author of two books of poems, THE PILOT'S DAUGHTER and RUSSIAN TORTOISE and two children's books, JONATHAN'S CLOUD and NAMING THE ANIMALS. She is also the author of AMELIA: THE LIBRETTO, for the opera AMELIA, scheduled to premiere at Seattle Opera in May 2010 with music by Daron Hagen and story by Stephen Wadsworth. She is the editor of MADE WITH WORDS, a prose miscellany by May Swenson, and the author of the introduction and notes for a Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Kenneth Grahame's THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. Her poems have appeared in THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, PARIS REVIEW, SEWANEE REVIEW, SOUTHWEST REVIEW, TIN HOUSE, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City and teaches at Hunter College.