St. Rage's Vault

Poetry. Winner of the Washington Prize for 2013. A pregnancy memoir that unfolds through a series of poems about art, the book engages images of maternity—from the Madonna to the monster—to explore kinship, community, and mortality. The radical changes of a woman's body and role transform not just the individual but art, culture, and language themselves.

B. K. Fischer is a poet, critic, editor, and teacher. Her novel- in-verse, Mutiny Gallery, won the 2011 T. S. Eliot Prize from Truman State University Press. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Boston Review, Ekphrasis, Southwest Review, Western Humanities Review, FIELD, and other journals. In May 2012, she became poetry editor at Boston Review.