Author: Ned Balbo

Ned Balbo ’s six books include The Cylburn Touch-Me-Nots (New Criterion Poetry Prize) and 3 Nights of the Perseids (Richard Wilbur Award), both published in 2019. The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems received the Poets’ Prize and the Donald Justice Prize. He received a 2022 Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council and was a 2021 Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Balbo has been a faculty member in Iowa State University's MFA program in creative writing and environment and at the West Chester University Poetry Conference where he and poet Jane Satterfield will offer a three-day workshop, "The Echoing Green: Poems of the Living World," in April 2022. A new batch of songs, Ultraviolet Chimera, is available at Bandcamp. (For more, visit https://nedbalbo.com.)