Martine Bellen is the author of six collections of poetry including The Vulnerability of Order (Copper Canyon Press 2001); Tales of Murasaki and Other Poems (Sun & Moon Press 1999) which won the National Poetry Series Award; and Places People Dare Not Enter (Potes & Poets Press 1991). A bilingual collection of her poetry was published in 2003 in Germany by Verlag im Waldgut (translator, Hans Jürgen Balmes). Her forthcoming collection, Living with Animals, will be published next year. She has also written the libretto for Ovidiana, an opera based on Ovid's Metamorphoses (composer, Matthew Greenbaum) that has been performed in New York City and Philadelphia. Ms. Bellen has been a senior editor of the literary journal Conjunctions. She is a contributing editor and on the board of directors of Web del Sol. Ms. Bellen comes to UCO from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, the New School, and Rutgers University.