Ange Mlinko is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Venice (FSG), and a book of lyric criticism, Difficult Ornaments: Florida and the Poets, forthcoming from Oxford University Press. She has won the Randall Jarrell Award in Criticism, the Frederick Bock Prize from Poetry magazine, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books, and teaches poetry at the University of Florida.