Caroline Knox’s eighth book, FLEMISH, appeared from Wave Books in 2013. Her sixth, QUAKER GUNS, won a 2009 Recommended Reading Award from the Massachusetts Center for the Book. HE PAVES THE ROAD WITH IRON BARS received the 2005 Maurice English Award. She has received grants or prizes from the NEA, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Fund for Poetry, and Poetry magazine, among others. Her work has been in American Scholar, A Public Space, Boston Review, Harvard, New Republic, Paris Review, Yale Review, Poetry, and elsewhere; it is anthologized in BEST AMERICAN POETRY 1988 and 1994, and in POSTMODERN AMERICAN POETRY: A NORTON ANTHOLOGY, Second Edition (2013).

Published by Fivehundred places, founded in 2012 by Jason Dodge. On the cover of each book is a dead scissor by Paul Elliman.