04/2017 – Elyse Fenton (MFA Poetry ’07) is the author of the poetry collections, Clamor—winner of the 2010 Dylan Thomas Prize, Cleveland State First Book Award and Bob Bush Memorial Award—and Sweet Insurgent (Saturnalia 2017), winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Prize. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Best New Poets, American Poetry Review, Pleiades, Brain, Child, and Prairie Schooner, and has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and PRI’s The World. She lives with her family in Portland, Oregon.