Selected by Kwame Dawes as a winner of the 2020 National Poetry Series, W. J. Herbert's debut full-length poetry manuscript, Dear Specimen, will be published by Beacon Press in October of 2021. Chosen by Natasha Trethewey for inclusion in Best American Poetry 2017, her work also appears, or is forthcoming, in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Atlantic, Boulevard, The Hudson Review, New Ohio Review, Pleiades, Southwest Review, and others. Herbert served for seven years as coordinator of the bimonthly poetry series and annual poetry competition offered by dA Center for the Arts in Pomona, California. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio and raised in Southern California where she earned a bachelor's in studio art and a master's in flute performance. She lives in Kingston, New York and Portland, Maine.
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