Anne-Marie Thompson is the author of Audiation, winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize. A pianist and writer, she has taught music, creative writing, and literature at Johns Hopkins University, Westminster College, Lincoln University, and the Syracuse Downtown Writers Center. She has received awards from Sewanee Writers' Conference, West Chester Poetry Conference, The Athens Centre in Greece, and the Yeats Society in Sligo, Ireland. Recent work appears in The Gettysburg Review, North American Review, Poetry Northwest, and other venues. Originally from southeast Texas, she now lives with her family in Syracuse.