Patricia Traxler is an award-winning poet, essayist, and fiction
writer. A two-time Bunting Poetry Fellow at Radcliffe, she also
served as Hugo Poet at the University of Montana, Thurber Poet
at Ohio State, and as visiting writer at many other universities
around the U.S. Her novel, Blood (St. Martin's/Macmillan) was
also published in Spanish, German, and Swedish translations, as
well as in a UK/Ireland edition. Her poetry collection, Naming
the Fires, received the 2019 Kansas Book Award in Poetry.
Traxler's short stories have won several awards, including
The Writer's Voice of New York City Award for Short Fiction,
the Cecil Hackney National Short Story Award, the Georgia
State University Short Story Award, and in Ireland, The Moth
Magazine's 2019 Short Story Prize.