Stacey Balkun

Poet

New Orleans, LA
Louisiana US

Author's Bio

Stacey Balkun is the author of Eppur Si Muove, Jackalope-Girl Learns to Speak, & Lost City Museum. Winner of the 2017 Women's National Book Association Poetry Prize, her critical & creative work has appeared in Best New Poets 2018Crab Orchard ReviewThe Rumpus, and many other anthologies & journals. Chapbook Series Editor for Sundress Publications, Stacey holds an MFA from Fresno State and teaches poetry online at The Poetry Barn & The Loft. Visit her online at www.staceybalkun.com.

Education: 

Publications & Prizes

Anthology:
Circe's Lament: An Anthology of Wild Women (Accents Publishing, 2017)
Chapbooks:
Jackalope-Girl Learns to Speak (Dancing Girl Press, 2016)
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Lost City Museum (ELJ Publications, 2016)
Journals: ,
Clementine Poetry Journal
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Devilfish Review
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Edison Literary Review
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Gingerbread House
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Soundings Review
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Stone Highway Review
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The Feminist Wire
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Wherewithal
Prizes won: 

Second Place, Nan Snow Emerging Writer Award, 2018; First Place, Women's National Book Award Poetry Prize, 2017; First Place, Words & Music Poetry Prize, 2017; Finalist, Wherewithal Poetry Prize 2015; Press53 53-Word Story Contest: Winner, December 2014; Tupelo Press Sunken Garden Poetry Prize: First Runner-up, chosen by Mark Doty, 2014; C.G. Hanzlicek Poetry Writing Fellowship: Recipient, 2013; Tucson Festival of the Book Award: Finalist, 2012; Mitchell Adelman Memorial Scholarship Award: Recipient, 2009; Alabama State Poetry Society Fall 2009 Poetry Competition: Second Place, 2009; Phyllis B. Abrams Poetry Award: Recipient, 2006; Fourth Annual Walt Whitman Poetry Festival: Award Recipient, 2006

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, Naturalists/Environmentalists, Teenagers
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Longview, TX
Texas
Raised in: 
Piscataway, NJ
New Jersey
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Last update: May 06, 2019