A Witch’s Dictionary is Sarah Kennedy’s fifth book of poetry. Kevin Prufer called it .. “One of the most unsettling, timely, and technically marvelous new books I’ve read in a long, long time. Sarah Kennedy is unafraid to tackle the enormous crises of our time – war, terror, official lies – and she does so with skill, macabre wit, energy and, most of all, complexity. Sarah Kennedy has always been a poet of great skill and subtlety. This is her best book yet. ” Sarah Kennedy is the author of six books of poems, including Home Remedies and A Witch’s Dictionary. She has received grants from the NEA and the Virginia Commission for the Arts, a contributing editor to Shenandoah and West Branch, her work has appeared in such publications as Prairie Schooner, Arts & Letters, and Pleiades. She is an associate professor at Mary Baldwin College.