2024 Chapbook Contest
Judge Announced

Pamela Uschuk

Pam Uschuk has howled out eight books of poems, including Crazy Love, winner of a 2010 American Book Award and a new collection, Refugee, from Red Hen Press, 2022 (Starred Kirkus Review). Translated into more than a dozen languages, her work appears worldwide, including Poetry, Ploughshares, Agni Review, etc. Her awards include Best of the Web, the Struga International Poetry Prize (for a theme poem), Dorothy Daniels Writing Award from the National League of American PEN Women, and prizes from Ascent and Amnesty International. Editor-In-Chief of CUTTHROAT, A JOURNAL OF THE ARTS, and Black Earth Institute Boardmember and Senior Fellow, Uschuk lives in Bayfield, Colorado and Tucson, Arizona. She edited the anthologies, Truth To Power: Writers Respond To The Rhetoric Of Hate And Fear, 2017, Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st Century, 2020, and Through the Ash, New Leaves, 2022. The month of September 2022 found her at Storyknife Women Writers Retreat in Alaska on a writing fellowship. She’s just finished a new ms of poems, FIELD GUIDE TO MIGRATORY WORDS, and is finishing a multi-genre book called SHOUT OUT, HOPE’S CRAZED ANGELS: AN ODYSSEY THROUGH OVARIAN CANCER. http://www.pamelauschuk.com/