Ian Ganassi is the inaugural winner of the China Grove Prize in Poetry. His poetry and prose have appeared in more than 50 literary journals, and New England Review has published his translations of Books 1-7 of Virgil's Aeneid. Critical essays have appeared in Octopus, American Letters & Commentary, The Gettysburg Review, and Boulevard, among others. Selections from "The Corpses," a collage series in collaboration with painter Laura Bell, have been included in art and literary publications and exhibited in galleries in New York City, New Haven, CT, and elsewhere. Ganassi has worked as a percussionist, accompanying Modern, Caribbean, and African dance in New Haven, and as a teacher of writing and literature. He is a longtime resident of New Haven.