Susan Kinsolving is the author of the poetry collections The White Eyelash; Dailies & Rushes; Among Flowers; and My Glass Eye. Glimmerglass Opera commissioned her to write lyrics for a cantata entitled Constellations, and several of her poems have been set to music and performed in the United States and abroad. A recipient of the Poetry Society of America’s 2009 Lyric Award, Kinsolving has served as poet in residence at the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut.