Anna V. Q. Ross’s most recent book, Flutter, Kick (Red Hen Press), won the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award. Her previous books include If a Storm (winner of the Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry), Figuring (Bull City Press), and Hawk Weather (winner the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award from the New England Poetry Society). She is a Fulbright Scholar, a Mass Cultural Council fellow, and poetry editor for Salamander, and her work appears or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, The Missouri Review, The Nation, and elsewhere. She teaches at Tufts University and through the Emerson Prison Initiative. Anna lives with her family in Dorchester, where she runs the poetry and music series Unearthed Song & Poetry and raises chickens.