Stacey Balkun is the author of Eppur Si Muove (Porkbelly Press, forthcoming ), Jackalope-Girl Learns to Speak (dancing girl press 2016) & Lost City Museum (Bull City Press, forthcoming), and co-Editor along with Catherine Moore of Fiolet & Wing: An Anthology of Domestic Fabulist Women Poets (Between the Lines Press). Stacey received her MFA from Fresno State and her creative and critical work has appeared or will appear in Terrain, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, New South, Crab Orchard Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Gargoyle, Muzzle, Menacing Hedge, and other journals and anthologies. She writes reviews for The Bind and blogs occasionally at 1508 [A Blog Where Poetry Lives].
Her accolades include the 2019 Terrain.org 10th Annual Contest, the 2019 New South Writing Contest, 2017 WNBA Poetry Award, the 2017 William Faulkner Words & Music Poetry Gold Medal, the 2017 Photo Finish Award, and the 2017 Charter Oak Award for Best Historical. A 2018 Wurlitzer Fellow, Stacey served as Artist-in-Residence at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 2013. She has earned several fellowships and scholarships to conferences including Sundress Academy for the Arts, Longleaf Writers Conference, Hambidge, Cape May Winter Getaway, Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference in Alaska, and Poetry by the Sea. Stacey lives in New Orleans and is a teaching artist at both The Poetry Barn & The Loft online, and Chapbook Series Editor for Sundress Publications.
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Stacey Balkun is the author of SWEETBITTER (Sundress 2021) & co-editor of Fiolet & Wing: An Anthology of Domestic Fabulist Poetry. Winner of the 2019 New South Writing Contest as well as Terrain.org’s 10th Annual Contest, her work has appeared in Best New Poets 2018, Crab Orchard Review, The Rumpus, & several other anthologies & journals. Stacey holds an MFA from Fresno State and teaches creative writing online at The Poetry Barn & The Loft. Visit her online at http://www.staceybalkun.com.
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