Vievee Francis is the author of two previous collections of poetry – Blue-Tail Fly and Horse in the Dark: Poems, the latter of which won the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry 2010 and Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry. She was the recipient of the 2009 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and the 2010 Kresge Artist Fellowship. A Cave Canem Fellow, she is an associate editor for Callaloo.