Fleda Brown ¿is professor emerita at the University of Delaware and is a faculty member of the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. She served as Delaware's poet laureate from 2001 to 2007 and¿is the author of nine poetry books, including The Devil 's Child and Fishing With Blood , and two memoirs,¿including¿ Driving with Dvor ak (Nebraska, 2010). Her work has twice appeared in The Best American Poetry and has won numerous awards, including a Pushcart Prize and the Felix Pollak Prize.¿ ¿