Debra Nystrom is the author of three collections of poetry, Bad River Road (Sarabande Books, 2009), Torn Sky (Sarabande Books, 2003), and A Quarter Turn (Sheep Meadow Press, 1991). Her work has been published in numerous anthologies and magazines, including The American Poetry Review, Slate, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, Yale Review and AGNI. She has received poetry awards from Five Points, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, The Virginia Commission for the Arts, and The Library of Virginia. She teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Virginia.  

Photo by Katherine Kayser, 2009