Samuel Washington Allen Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Enzo Silon Surin
Born in Brooklyn, NY, Ivy Schweitzer has lived for many years in Vermont and taught English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College. Recently, her poems have appeared in the Passager Poetry Contest, Ritualwell, Tikkun, New Croton Review, Mississippi Review, and Spoon River Poetry Review. A collection titled Within Flesh: In Conversation with Our Selves and Emily Dickinson, co-written with Al Salehi about the Black Lives Matter movement, appeared in February 2024 from Transcendent Zero Press. Her debut solo collection titled Tumult, Whitewash, and Stretchmarks will appear in 2025 from Finishing Line Press. Visit her author page at https://sites.dartmouth.edu/ivyschweitzer/.