Winner:

Orchid Tierney, looking at the Tiny: Mad lichen on the surfaces of reading

Orchid Tierney is a poet and scholar from Aotearoa New Zealand, who now lives in Gambier, Ohio. She is the author of the collection a year of misreading the wildcats (The Operating System, 2019) and six chapbooks, including my beatrice (above/ground press, 2020) ocean plastic (BlazeVOX Books, 2019), and blue doors (Belladonna*Press, 2018). Her scholarship, reviews, and poetry have appeared in Jacket2, Venti, Fractured Ecologies, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Ohio Arts Council Y22 Individual Artist Excellence Award. Tierney is an assistant professor of English at Kenyon College, a senior editor at the Kenyon Review, and a Black Earth Institute Fellow. www.orchidtierney.com.

Runner up:

Toby Altman, Public Papers