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Vievee Francis was born in San Angelo,
Texas, in 1963. Her books of poetry
include Blue-Tail Fly (Wayne State
University Ptess, 2006), Horse in the Dark
(winner of the Cave Canem
Northwestern University Poetry Prize for
a second collection; Northwestern
University Press, 2016), Forest Primeval
(winner of the Hurston Wright Legacy
Award and the 2017 Kingsley Tufts
Poetry Award; TriQuarterly, 2015), and
The Shared World (Northwestern, 2022).
Her work has appeared in five editions
of The Best American Poetry and in Angles ef
Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary
African American Poetry. She has been a
poet-in-residence for the Alice Lloyd
Scholars Program at the University of
Michigan. In 2009 she received a Rona
Jaffe Writer’s Award, and in 2010, a
Kresge Fellowship. A former associate
editor of Callaloo, she is an associate
professor of English and creative writing
at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New
Hampshire.
Texas, in 1963. Her books of poetry
include Blue-Tail Fly (Wayne State
University Ptess, 2006), Horse in the Dark
(winner of the Cave Canem
Northwestern University Poetry Prize for
a second collection; Northwestern
University Press, 2016), Forest Primeval
(winner of the Hurston Wright Legacy
Award and the 2017 Kingsley Tufts
Poetry Award; TriQuarterly, 2015), and
The Shared World (Northwestern, 2022).
Her work has appeared in five editions
of The Best American Poetry and in Angles ef
Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary
African American Poetry. She has been a
poet-in-residence for the Alice Lloyd
Scholars Program at the University of
Michigan. In 2009 she received a Rona
Jaffe Writer’s Award, and in 2010, a
Kresge Fellowship. A former associate
editor of Callaloo, she is an associate
professor of English and creative writing
at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New
Hampshire.
--“1965: Harriet Richardson Wipes Galway Kinnell’s Face after State Troopers
Beat Him with a Billy Club" first appeared in The Kenyon Review and was reprinted
in an issue of Best American Poetry 2022.
Beat Him with a Billy Club" first appeared in The Kenyon Review and was reprinted
in an issue of Best American Poetry 2022.
