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including Granta, the Boston Review, Fence, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day series.
Poetry collection Wyoming won the 2013 Furniture Press Poetry Prize. Recipient of the Diane di Prima Fellowship from the Center for the Humanities from 2016-2018; edited three chapbooks for the Lost & Found Poetics Document Initiative: Diane di Prima: Prometheus Unbound as a Magickal Working (Series VIII) Bobbie Louise Hawkins: The Sounding Word and Judy Grahn: Selections from Blood, Bread and Roses (Series VI).
Most recently the author of The First Books of David Henderson and Mary Korte: A Research (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020), and Into the Long Long Time: How Mary Korte Saved the Redwoods (Ink Cap Press, 2019).
Iris holds a Ph.D in English from the CUNY Graduate Center, and authored a dissertation titled Pierce and Pine: Diane di Prima, Mary Norbert Korte and the Question of Matter and Spirit. Born in 1983 in Tarzana, California.
Cushing grew up in Yolo County, California. Now living in the Western Catskill Mountains.