Gallagher's second book of poems, Stubborn, follows quickly after publication of her first book, This Minute (Fordham), which received the Poets Out Loud Prize. Stubborn won the ninth annual FIELD Poetry Prize. "Readers will not want to put down this book once they have started to encounter it. It shines with power and crackles with excitement." (David Young)About the Author: JEAN GALLAGHER is the author of Start (Oberlin College Press) and This Minute (Fordham University Press, 2005). She is an associate professor of English at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, NY.