ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF THE 2018
POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA CHAPBOOK FELLOWSHIP

CHAPBOOK FELLOWSHIP

Here is a Clearing by Heather Hamilton
selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

The Deaf Island by Joann Gardner
selected by D. Nurkse

30 AND UNDER

A System of Satellites by Như Xuân Nguyễn
selected by Adrian Matejka

Wild Conditions by Laura Romeyn
selected by Ange Mlinko

Finalists

Dramedy by Diana Keren Lee
selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

in the sulfur baths by Catherine Pond
selected by Adrian Matejka

Sickarus by M. Brown
selected by Ange Mlinko

ABOUT THE 2018 CHAPBOOK FELLOWS

Originally from Mobile, Alabama, Heather Hamilton holds an MFA from the University of Florida and a PhD from the University of Cincinnati, where she received an Academy of American Poets prize. Her poems have appeared in Subtropics, Birmingham Poetry Review, RHINO, Willow Springs, Southern Poetry Review, Third Coast, Poetry Northwest, and Verse Daily, among other journals. She lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and teaches at Penn State Harrisburg.

A native of Maine, Joann Gardner lives part of the year in Tallahassee, Florida, where she is an associate professor of English at The Florida State University. She holds a Master's degree from the University of York in England and a Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University. For fifteen years, she directed and taught for Runaway with Words, a poetry workshop for at-risk youth that took her to shelters, detention centers and alternative high schools across the country. She has received artist residencies from Villa Montalvo and the Blue Mountain Center, and her poems have appeared in such journals as Crazyhorse, Barrow Street, Louisiana Literature and Comstock Review. Her chapbook La Florida won the Weldon Kees Prize and was published by Backwaters Press.

Như Xuân Nguyễn is a Vietnamese American poet and writer. She is a Kundiman fellow and an MFA candidate in Poetry at Rutgers-Newark. Her work has appeared in The Offing, Deluge, The Journal, The Shade Journal, and Juked. Photo credit: Jess X. Snow.

Laura Romeyn was born and raised in western Wisconsin. Winner of the Driftless Prize, her poems have appeared in AGNI, Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, Ninth Letter, and The Yale Review, among other journals. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University (2015-2017), she now lives and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area.