Temple Cone is the author of three books of poetry: That Singing (March Street Press, 2011); The Broken Meadow (Old Seventy Creek, 2010), which won the Old Seventy Creek Press Poetry Series Prize; and No Loneliness (FutureCycle Press), which won the FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize.  

He has also published five poetry chapbooks and numerous poems in such journals as Virginia Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, West Branch, and Southern Poetry Review.  Awards for his work include the Anne Arundel Country Arts Council “Annie” Award in literary arts, two Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) Individual Artist Awards in Poetry, two Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizes, the Christian Publishers Poetry Prize, and the John Lehman Award in Poetry from the Wisconsin Academy Review.  

Cone holds a PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin, an MFA in creative writing from the University of Virginia, an MA in creative writing from Hollins University, and a BA in philosophy from Washington and Lee University.  An associate professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy, he lives in Annapolis, Maryland with his wife and daughter.