Diann Blakely is a poet, reviewer, and essayist whose most recent book, Cities of Flesh and the Dead , won the Alice Fay DiCastagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America and the
7th Annual Elixir Publication Prize. Work from her current manuscript,
Rain in Our Door: Duets with Robert Johnson , has been featured in the Believer , Callaloo, the Chronicle of Higher
Education, DoubleTake, Parnassus
, and Shenandoah; since 2010, Blakely's prose has appeared at Antioch Review and Pleiades, as well as online at the Best American Poetry site, Chapter 16: Tennessee Humanities Online, Nashville Scene, Village Voice Media, Option, and Swampland. See http://www.diannblakely.com for more.