Ridiculous Light Format: Paperback

Winner of the 2018 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry

A seasoned first collection of poems―personal and wry―that showcases an impressive poetic talent.

In Ridiculous Light, Valencia Robin captures the everyday and the ecstatic in a voice all her own. Through poems that live at the intersection of history and experience, she captures the joys and tumult of being alive. She is a storyteller of the first order, a documenter not just of memories but of how we remember.

Valencia Robin is a poet and visual artist. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The St. Petersburg Review, Black Renaissance Noire, Kweli, The Cortland Review, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. She is a Cave Canem Fellow and the 2014 winner of the Hocking Hills Festival of Poetry Competition. She holds an MFA in Art & Design from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Virginia where she currently teaches as a third-year post-MFA fellow.