Cara Dees

Cara Dees is the author of the debut poetry collection EXORCISM LESSONS IN THE HEARTLAND (forthcoming October 2019), selected by Ada Limón for the 2018 Barrow Street Book Prize. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets 2016, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, Poetry Daily, The Southeast Review, and elsewhere. The recipient of a scholarship from the Sewanee Writers Conference and an Academy of American Poets College Prize from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she has taught at the University of Cincinnati, Fisk University, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Arkansas. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Cincinnati.