Stacey Balkun, Poet

                                             Winner, Faulkner Society’s 2017 Gold Medal for Poetry

Stacey Balkun is the author of three chapbooks, Eppur Si Muove (Red Paint Hill Press 2017), Jackalope-Girl Learns to Speak (dancing girl press 2016) and Lost City Museum (ELJ Publications 2016), and co-Editor with Catherine Moore of Fiolet & Wing: An Anthology of Domestic Fabulist Women Poets. She received her MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry, with honors from Fresno State, where her thesis was nominated for a Dean’s Award.

Winner of the 2017 WNBA Poetry Award, she was selected by poet Carolyn Hembree for the 2017 William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competion’s Poetry Gold Medal. ,Her work has appeared or will appear in The Rumpus, Crab Orchard Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Gargoyle, Muzzle, THRUSH, Bodega, and other journals and anthologies. 

A 2015 Hambidge Fellow, Stacey served as Artist-in-Residence at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 2013. She has earned several fellowships and scholarships to conferences including the Cape May Winter Getaway in her home state New Jersey, Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference in Alaska, and Poetry by the Sea in Connecticut, a     Winner, Faulkner Society’s 2017 Gold Medal for Poetry

Stacey Balkun is the author of three chapbooks, Eppur Si Muove (Red Paint Hill Press 2017), Jackalope-Girl Learns to Speak (dancing girl press 2016) and Lost City Museum (ELJ Publications 2016), and co-Editor with Catherine Moore of Fiolet & Wing: An Anthology of Domestic Fabulist Women Poets. She received her MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry, with honors from Fresno State, where her thesis was nominated for a Dean’s Award.

Winner of the 2017 WNBA Poetry Award, she was selected by poet Carolyn Hembree for the 2017 William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competion’s Poetry Gold Medal. ,Her work has appeared or will appear in The Rumpus, Crab Orchard Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Gargoyle, Muzzle, THRUSH, Bodega, and other journals and anthologies. 

A 2015 Hambidge Fellow, Stacey served as Artist-in-Residence at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 2013. She has earned several fellowships and scholarships to conferences including the Cape May Winter Getaway in her home state New Jersey, Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference in Alaska, and Poetry by the Sea in Connecticut, and most recently, a 2018 Helene Wurlitzer Fellowship. 

Stacey lives in New Orleans and is a teaching artist at The Poetry Barn, and Chapbook Series Editor for Sundress Publications.