Shimming the Glass House, winner of the 2007 Richard Snyder Prize, is Helen Pruitt Wallace's first collection of poems. Co-editor of the anthology Isle of Flowers published by Anhinga Press, Wallace has published poems in The Literary Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Cumberland Review, Nimrod International, Tampa Review, and other journals. She's received a McKay Shaw Academy of American Poets Award, The dA Center for the Arts Poetry Award, a residency fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference. She is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida.