Robert McDowell is the author of two books of poetry, Quiet Money (Holt 1987) and The Diviners (Peterloo Poets, 1995). His poems, essays, and fiction are published widely here and abroad, and his revised edition of the classic text, Sound and Form in Modern Poetry, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 1996. McDowell is also the editor of Poetry After Modernism and co-author with Mark Jarman of The Reaper Essays. He is the editor and pulisher at Story Line Press.