VIEVEE FRANCIS is the author of three previous books of poetry: Blue-Tail Fly; Horse in the Dark: Poems, winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize for a second collection; and Forest Primeval: Poems (TriQuarterly), winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the 2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. In 2009 she received a Rona Jaffe Writer's Award and in 2010 a Kresge Fellowship. She is an associate professor of English and creative writing at Dartmouth College and serves as an associate editor of Callaloo.
