I’ve been given clearance to tell the world: my first full-length poetry manuscript, Tasty Other, has won the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award!

Main Street Rag let the book award news out of the bag at AWP via a raffle entry form…

The award includes a cash prize, author copies, and publication. The book is due out in November. Tasty Other explores the transition to mother identity, and it grew out of the creative portion of my dissertation.

(I was shaking with excitement for about two hours after I got the phone call. I deleted some exclamation points above so I can at least appear cooler in print than I am in person, but I’m so thrilled and honored!)

In related good news, Main Street Rag just received the Best Small Press award from Mid-American Review at the AWP conference last week! Congrats to them!