Patty Seyburn’s third book of poems, Hilarity, won the Green Rose Prize given by New Issues Press (Western Michigan University) and will be published in 2009. She has published two books of poems: Mechanical Cluster (Ohio State University Press, 2002) and Diasporadic (Helicon Nine Editions, 1998). She is co-editor of POOL: A Journal of Poetry, and an assistant professor at California State University, Long Beach.