Melissa Kwasny

Melissa Kwasny is the author of Reading Novalis in Montana (Milkweed Editions, 2009), The Archival Birds (Bear Star Press, 2000) and Thistle (Lost Horse Press, 2006), which won the Idaho Prize in 2006. She is also the editor of Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800-1950 (Wesleyan University Press, 2004). Widely published in journals, including Willow Springs, Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, Bellingham Review, Crab Orchard Review, and River Styx, she was recently the Richard Hugo Visiting Poet at the University of Montana and a Visiting Writer at the University of Wyoming. She wrote many of the poems in The Nine Senses during a residency at the Vermont Studio Center. She lives in Jefferson City, Montana.