To Suture What Frays

Jaclyn Piudik has authored two chapbooks, Of Gazelles Unheard (Beautiful Outlaw, 2013) and The Tao of Loathliness (fooliar press, 2005/2008). Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including Contemporary Verse 2, The New Quarterly, Columbia Poetry Review, La Presa and New American Writing. She has edited three collections of poetry for award winning Canadian publisher BookThug and is the recipient of a New York Times Fellowship for Creative Writing, and the Alice M. Sellers Award from the Academy of American Poets. Jaclyn holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from the City College of New York and a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto.