Adrian Blevins

Adrian Blevins (born 1964 in Abingdon, Virginia, United States) is an American poet. She is the author of four collections of poetry, including ''Appalachians Run Amok'', winner of the 2016 Wilder Prize (Two Sylvias Press, 2018). Her other full-length poetry collections are ''Status Pending'' (Four Way Books, 2023), ''Live from the Homesick Jamboree'' (Wesleyan University Press, 2009) and ''The Brass Girl Brouhaha'' (Ausable Press, now Copper Canyon Press, 2003). With Karen McElmurray, Blevins co-edited ''Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean: Meditations on the Forbidden from Contemporary Appalachia'' (Ohio University Press, 2015), a collection of essays of new and emerging Appalachian poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers. Her chapbooks are ''Bloodline'' (Hollyridge Press, 2012) and ''The Man Who Went Out for Cigarettes'', which won the first of Bright Hill Press's chapbook contests. (Bright Hill Press, 1996).

Blevins won a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award in 2002. Other prizes include the Lamar York Prize for Nonfiction from the Chattahoochee Review, a Pushcart Prize for "Tally" from ''Appalachians Run Amok'', and other magazine prizes from ''Ploughshares'' and ''Zone 3''. She was a Walter Daken Poetry Fellow at the Sewanee Writers' Conference in 2008 and a Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 2017. Provided by Wikipedia