Ann Goldsmith is a graduate of Smith College and lives in Buffalo, NY. She won the Quarterly Review of Literature Prize for her first book, No One Is the Same Again, in 1999, and has been a winner in the St. Louis Poetry Center Best Poem contest and a finalist in the Discover/The Nation national competition. She has taught at several colleges in the Buffalo, NY, area and served as poet-in-residence at the Chautauqua Institution.