Kiki PetrosinoKiki
Petrosino is the author of White Blood: a Lyric of Virginia (2020) and
three other poetry books. She holds graduate degrees from the University of
Chicago and the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop. Her poems and essays haveappeared in Prairie Schooner, Best American Poetry, The Nation, The
New York Times, FENCE, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Tin House and on-line at Ploughshares.
She directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of Virginia, where
she is a Professor of Poetry. Petrosino is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a
Fellowship in Creative Writing from the National Endowment for the Arts, an Al
Smith Fellowship Award from the Kentucky Arts Council, and the UNT Rilke Prize.