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. His poem “The Wolves of Chernobyl” was second-prize co-winner in the 2022 Keats-Shelley competition sponsored by the UK’s Keats-Shelley Memorial Association. Awarded a 2022 Maryland State Arts Council Independent Artist Award in poetry, Balbo has taught in Iowa State University's MFA program in creative writing and environment, the West Chester University Poetry Conference, and elsewhere. New poems are out or forthcoming in Birmingham Poetry Review, The Common, Plough Quarterly, Shenandoah, and Smartish Pace. He is married to poet and essayist Jane Satterfield. (For more, visit https://nedbalbo.com.)