Donna Potts is Associate Professor of English at Kansas State University. She specializes in Irish literature and has published articles on Irish writers such as Katharine Tynan, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Patrick McCabe and Frank McCourt, as well as a book on the American poet Howard Nemerov (Howard Nemerov and Objective Idealism). Other research interests include Canadian fiction, Native American poetry, and modern and contemporary American poetry. In 1997 she won a Fulbright Senior Lecturing Award to Ireland. Her teaching interests include Irish literature, Old English, and poetry. Works in progress include a book on nature in modern and contemporary Irish poetry, and a book of creative nonfiction about prostitution in 1930's Fort Worth.