Anne Pierson Wiese's first collection, Floating City (Louisiana State University Press, 2007), received the Academy of American Poets 2006 Walt Whitman Award. She received a 2005 Fellowship in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts and was also a winner of the 2004 "Discovery"/The Nation poetry prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in many journals, among them: Ploughshares, The Nation, Hudson Review, Southern Humanities Review, Raritan, Southwest Review, and Poetry International. Her work has been anthologized in Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn (New York University Press, 2007), and featured by The Writer's Almanac and American Life in Poetry.