Karen Skolfield's book Frost in the Low Areas (2013) won the First Book Award for Poetry from Zone 3 Press. She is the poetry editor for Amherst Live, a quarterly production of poetry, politics, and more, and she's a contributing editor at the literary magazines Tupelo Quarterly and Stirring. Her poems have appeared in Best of the Net Anthology, Cave Wall, Memorious, Rattle, Tar River Poetry, West Branch,
and others. She teaches writing to engineers at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst, where she earned her Master of Fine Arts.
Second Place
Rebecca Black
Third Place
In 2011, Rebecca Black,
was a Fulbright distinguished scholar at the Seamus Heaney Center
for Poetry in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is the author of Cottonlandia, winner of a Juniper Prize. A former Wallace Stegner and NEA fellow, her poems can be found in Poetry, New England Review, Blackbird, Virginia Quarterly Review, Agni, and many other magazines. She has taught at several universities, most recently in the MFA Program at UNC-Greensboro.
Third Place
Alison Roh Park
is a Kundiman fellow, Pushcart nominated poet, and recipient of of
the PSA New York Chapbook Fellowship, Poets & Writers Magazine
Amy Award and Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant. She teaches
ethnic studies at Hunter College and is founding member of The Good
Times Collective of emerging poets writing in the tradition of
Lucille Clifton.
