Kiki Petrosino

Kiki Petrosino’s newest collection of poems, Hymn for the Black Terrific, is forthcoming from Sarabande in 2013. Other publications include Fort Red Border (Sarabande, 2009) and a chapbook, The Dark Is Here (Forkift Ink). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the New York Times, Tin House, Jubilat, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, and elsewhere. Along with a colleague, she co-edits Transom, an electronic poetry journal (http://www.transomjournal.com). Petrosino holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has been awarded two staff scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and a post-graduate writing fellowship from the University of Iowa. Her latest collection of poems will be released from Sarabande in 2013.