Black Milk

Tory Dent's previous books include What Silence Equals (Persea Books, 1993) and HIV, Mon Amour (Sheep Meadow Press, 1999), which was awarded the Academy of American Poets James Laughlin Award and Eric Mathieu King Award, and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

She is a John Simon Guggeinheim Fellow for 2005 and has received fellowships and grants from the Library of Congress/Witter Bynner, the Whiting Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, th…