Carlene Kucharczyk

Carlene Kucharczyk’s debut collection Strange Hymn was published this spring by the University of Massachusetts Press and is the winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry. She is the recipient of a Creation Grant from the Vermont Arts Council and holds an MFA from North Carolina State University. Her work has been published in journals such as Mid-American Review, Green Mountains Review, Poetry Northwest, Tupelo Quarterly, and Conduit, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She was the Henry David Thoreau fellow at the Vermont Studio Center and Writer-in-Residence at the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site.