Fay Dillof’s work has appeared in Ploughshares, New Ohio Review, Green Mountain Review, FIELD, Rattle, Barrow Street, Gettysburg Review, Sugar House Review, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. She has been the recipient of the Dogwood Literary Prize in Poetry, The Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry, a scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and a scholarship to Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. She likes to keep close the Marguerite Duras quote: “No matter what I say, I will never discover why I write, nor how others do not write.”