Anne BabsonAnne Babson's collection The White Trash Pantheon won the Colby H. Kullman prize. Her collection Polite Occasions was featured at the 2018 Louisiana Book Festival. She wrote the libretto for the opera Lotus Lives, which has been performed in multiple cities in the United States and Canada. Her play about gun culture in the South, Reenactment, was published by Review Americana. She is the author of four chapbooks - the latest of which, Dolly Shot, was published by Dancing Girl Press. She has been anthologized in the United States and in England, most recently in the notable collection Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse. Her work has appeared in literary journals on five continents and has won numerous editorial awards. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize four times. She has received residency grants from Yaddo and Vermont Studio Center. She writes and lives in New Orleans. Read More Read Less