Juliet Patterson is the author of Sinkhole: A Legacy of Suicide (Milkweed Editions, 2022) and two full-length poetry collections, Threnody (Nightboat Books, 2016), a finalist for the 2017 Audre Lorde Poetry Award, and The Truant Lover (Nightboat Books, 2006), winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize and a finalist for the 2006 Lambda Literary Award. A recipient of an Arts & Letters Susan Atefat Prize in nonfiction and a Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize, she has also been awarded fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and the Minneapolis-based Creative Community Leadership Institute (formerly the Institute for Community and Creative Development).

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