Stacey Balkun

Stacey Balkun is the author of Sweetbitter and co-editor of Fiolet & Wing. Winner of a 2022 PEN America grant, her creative work has appeared in Best New Poets, Mississippi Review, Pleiades, and several other anthologies and journals. Her critical work has been anthologized and awarded support from the Modern Language Association and the South Atlantic MLA. Stacey holds a PhD from the University of Mississippi, Oxford and an MFA from Fresno State. She teaches online at The Poetry Barn. She lives and writes in New Orleans.