Dara Yen Elerath

Dara Yen Elerath's debut collection, Dark Braid, won the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry and was a finalist for the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. Her work has appeared in venues such as the Atlantic, Poem-a-Day, Poetry, AGNI, the American Poetry Review, High Country News and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.