Black Milk

Tory Dent's previous books include What Silence Equals (Persea Books, 1993) and HIV, Mon Amour (Sheep Meadow Press, 1999), which was awarded the Academy of American Poets James Laughlin Award and Eric Mathieu King Award, and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

She is a John Simon Guggeinheim Fellow for 2005 and has received fellowships and grants from the Library of Congress/Witter Bynner, the Whiting Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Rona Jaffe Foundation and the PEN organization.

Her poems have appeared in numerous periodicals, including Agni, Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Kenyon Review, Paris Review, Partisan Review, Lyric, Pequod, Ploughshares and many others. Her poetry has also been anthologized widely, and her art criticism has been published in Parachute, Flash Art and other journals and catalogs.

Tory Dent graduated from Barnard College in English Literature and received an MA from New York University.