Vickie VértizVickie Vértiz's first full collection of poetry, Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut, won a 2018 PEN America literary prize. Swallows is published by Finishing Line Press. A 2018 Bread Loaf Environmental fellow, a Macondist, recent CantoMundo Fellow, and even-time VONA participant, Vickie was also the 2015 Lucille Clifton Scholar at the Community of Writers. Her work was chosen by Natalie Diaz for the 2016 University of Arizona Poetry Center Summer Residency Program .Her writing is featured in the New York Times magazine, Huizache, Nepantla, the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. Read More Read Less