Ned Balbo

Ned Balbo’s six books include The Cylburn Touch-Me-Nots (New Criterion Poetry Prize) and 3 Nights of the Perseids (Richard Wilbur Award). He has received grants or fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (translation) and the Maryland Arts Council. From 2015–18 he was a visiting faculty member in Iowa State University’s MFA program in creative writing and environment. In July 2021 he was a Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Recent poems appear in American Journal of Poetry, Christian Century, The Common, Ecotone, Ginkgo Prize 2019 Ecopoetry Anthology, and elsewhere. He is married to poet and essayist Jane Satterfield.

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