Stacey Balkun

Stacey Balkun is the author of Sweetbitter (Sundress, 2022). Her creative and critical work has appeared in Attached to the Living World, Best New Poets, and Mississippi Review, among others. Balkun holds a PhD in literature from the University of Mississippi, where she was awarded the Holdich Scholar Award. She has been granted fellowships from the Modern Language Association, PEN America, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in support of her writing.