Franklin & Marshall College

Nick Lantz is the author of two books of poetry: The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors' House (University of Wisconsin Press, 2010) and We Don't Know We Don't Know (Graywolf Press, 2010), the latter of which won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, the Council for Wisconsin Writers Posner Award, and the Larry Levis Reading Prize. A third book, How to Dance When You Do Not Know How to Dance, is due out in 2014. Lantz has taught creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Tinker Mountain Writers' Workshop, Queens University of Charlotte's Low-Residency MFA, and Gettysburg College, where he was the 2010-2011 Emerging Writer Lecturer. He has received fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.