ONI BUCHANAN is the author of Spring, selected by Mark Doty for the 2007 National Poetry Series and published by the University of Illinois Press in September 2008. Her first poetry book, What Animal, was published in 2003 by the University of Georgia Press. She holds a BA in English and music from the University of Virginia, an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop, and a Masters in piano performance from the New England Conservatory of Music. As a concert pianist, she has released three solo piano CDs, and actively performs across the US and abroad. She lives in Boston, where she maintains a private piano-teaching studio.