Barbara Louise Ungar's most recent poetry collection, The Origin of the Milky Way , won the 2006 Gival Press Poetry Award, a Silver IPPY (Independent Publishers' Book Award), an Eric J. Hoffer award, and was a co-winner of the Adirondack Center for Writing Award for Best Book of Poetry 2007. She is also the author of Thrift , Sequel , and Haiku in English . She is an English professor at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York.