Jamaica Baldwin MFA ’17 Winner of the 2019 San Miguel Writer’s Conference Writing Contest in Poetry

Jamaica Baldwin MFA ’17 was announced winner of the 2019 San Miguel Writer’s Conference Writing Contest in Poetry for her poem, “Teaching the Beasts to Devour My Mother.” Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry, Rattle, Spiral Orb, Third Coast Review, Prairie Schooner, and the Seattle Review of Books where she was the March 2017 poet in residence. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Anthology from Sundress Publications. She was the recipient of a Hedgebrook residency as well as a 2017 Jack Straw Writers fellow. She is pursuing her doctorate in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.