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Virtual: Walton Visiting Writer in Poetry Rachel Mennies

The University of Arkansas Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing and Translation is proud to present the 2021-22 Walton Visiting Writer in Poetry.

Rachel Mennies is the author of the poetry collections "The Naomi Letters" (BOA Editions, 2021); "The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards", the 2014 winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry at Texas Tech University Press and finalist for a National Jewish Book Award; and "No Silence in the Fields", a chapbook from Blue Hour Press. 

Mennies is the series editor of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry and serves as the reviews editor for AGNI. Alongside the poet Ruth Awad, she edited the anthology "The Familiar Wild: On Dogs and Poetry" for Sundress Publications (2020).

Her poetry has recently appeared at "The Believer", "Kenyon Review", "American Poetry Review", and elsewhere. Rachel's essays, criticism, and other articles have appeared in "The Millions", "The Poetry Foundation", "LitHub", and numerous other outlets.

This event is made possible by University of Arkansas MFA Program in Creative Writing and Translation, the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, the English department, the Walton Family Foundation, Fayetteville Public Library and the James E. and Ellen Wadley Roper Professorship in Creative Writing.  

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