Author of over a dozen poetry collections, two works of fiction, and various articles, reviews, and collaborations with visual artists, Amy Gerstler won the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for Bitter Angel (1990). Gerstler’s more recent works include Nerve Storm (1993), Medicine (2000), Ghost Girl (2004), and Dearest Creature (2009), which the New York Times named a Notable Book of the Year.