Lola Haskins is a faculty member with the University of Florida's Computer and Information Sciences Department, where she teaches applications programming and web design. Ms. Haskins has published six books of poetry, as well as an introductory prose poem to a coffee table book of photographs called Visions of Florida. Her most recent books are Extranjera (Story Line, 1998), and The Rim-Benders (Anhinga, 2001). BOA Editions will bring out Desire Lines, New and Selected Poems, in 2004. Ms. Haskins has also recently finished a book of advice for people interested in poetry-- The Wing on the Mailbox, A Beginner's Guide to the Poetic Life, and is working on a new collection of poems and a book of environmental writing. Ms. Haskins' collaborations include playing the speaking Mata Hari in a ballet of that title for which she wrote the libretto, presenting a concert of her collection Forty-Four Ambitions for the Piano, with composer James Paul Sain and pianist Kevin Sharpe, and participating in a joint exhibit with photographer Diane Farris. She has also read her work on NPR and on BBC radio in England. Besides writing poetry, Ms. Haskins enjoys performing it at arts centers and academic institutions of all levels. Some of Ms. Haskins' other book titles include: Planting the Children, (University Press of Florida, 1983) Castings (Countryman Press, 1984; second edition Betony Press, 1992), Across Her Broad Lap Something Wonderful (State Street Press, 1990), Forty-Four Ambitions for the Piano (University Press of Florida, 1990; second edition Betony Press, 1992), and Hunger (University of Iowa Press, 1993), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize.