Carolyne Wright (lifetime NEPC member since 1992), has received a 2020-2021 Fulbright Scholar Award to Bahia, Brazil, which she hopes to take up after the global COVID-19 travel advisory is lifted. Her most recent book is This Dream the World: New & Selected Poems (Lost Horse Press, 2017), whose title poem won the NEPC’s Firman Houghton Award as well as a Pushcart Prize, and was also included in The Best American Poetry 2009. Also appearing in 2017 was the bilingual sequence Trazas de mapa, trazas de sangre / Map Traces, Blood Traces by Chilean poet Eugenia Toledo (Mayapple Press, 2017), a Finalist for the 2018 Washington State Book Award and the 2018 PEN America-Los Angeles Award in Translation. Wright was co-editor of the ground-breaking anthology, Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace (Lost Horse, 2015), which received ten Pushcart Prize nominations and was a finalist in the Foreword Review’s Book of the Year Awards. She has nine other volumes of poetry (including the Blue Lynx Prize and American Book Award-winning Seasons of Mangoes & Brainfire), a collection of essays, and four other award-winning volumes of poetry in translation from Spanish and Bengali. Wright has served as Visiting Poet and Writer at colleges and universities throughout the U.S., including Harvard, Radcliffe, Emory University and the University of Miami. She returned in 2005 to her native Seattle, where she teaches for Richard Hugo House, the Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA Program (from 2005 until the program’s closure in 2016), and for national and international literary conferences and festivals. She has received grants from the NEA, 4Culture, Seattle’s Office of Arts & Culture, and the Instituto Sacatar in Bahia, Brazil.