Amy Lowell Prize Winner, selected by Jason O’Toole
The poems of Anastasia Vassos have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets. She is the author of Note to Self (2026), Nostos (2023), which was a finalist in Two Sylvias’ and Headlight Review’s Chapbook Contests, and Nike Adjusting Her Sandal (2021). Her poems appear online as well as in print journals and anthologies; find her work in RHINO, Whale Road Review, Thrush, Comstock Review, and elsewhere. Her poems about the Greek-American diaspora have been translated into Greek. She is a reader for Lily Poetry Review, speaks three languages, and lives in Boston.