Stacey Balkun is the author of Sweetbitter & co-editor of Fiolet & Wing: An Anthology of Domestic Fabulist Poetry. Winner of the 2019 New South Writing Contest as well as Terrain.org’s 10th Annual Contest, her work has appeared in Best New Poets 2018, Mississippi Review, The Rumpus, Pleiades, & several other anthologies & journals. Stacey holds a PhD from the University of Mississippi and an MFA from Fresno State and currently teaches creative writing online.

Her newest project centers the vulnerable landscape of Louisiana, investigating her personal history of adoption alongside prairie restoration efforts using imagery of roots and rootedness.