Fred Chappell has received the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the North Carolina Award for Literature, the T.S. Eliot Prize of the Ingersoll Foundation, and the Bollingen Prize in Poetry.  His latest novel is Look Back All the Green Valley; his latest poetry, Backsass; and his latest nonfiction, A Way of Happening: Observations of Contemporary Poetry.  He is editor of Locales, an anthology of poetry by members of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, published by LSU Press.