...Susanna Childress © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 Susanna Childress My Father Who art in rural Minnesota, I bear your name. Your kingdom is a fiefdom of weathered souls, not the least of which is Bobby Kennedy, quoting Aeschylus after MLK’s death again and...

...Victoria Childress © 2020 Victoria Childress 2020 Victoria Childress Mixer, Delta Iota Kappa house ( Aqua Velva ) My friend invited me to go swimming, but there was something odd about the pool. The air stank of chlorine and iron; the tile floor was streaked with bloody footprints; the water...

... consultant. Susanna Childress’s second volume of poems, Entering the House of Awe (New Issues Press, 2011), was selected for the 2012 Society of Midland Authors Poetry Award. Her first book, Jagged with Love (University of Wisconsin Press, 2005), won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry. Childress...

... Award in Poetry. Victoria Childress studied creative writing at Virginia Tech while earning a master s degree in public health. She now lives in Salt Lake City, where she works as a clinical research coordinator at the Univer- sity of Utah. Claire Christoff is an MFA candidate at the University of...