Redemption

Joy Priest is the author of Horsepower (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. She is the recipient of a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a 2019–2020 Fine Arts Work Center fellowship, and the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from The American Poetry Review. Her poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, The Atlantic and The Nation, among others, as well as in commissions for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). She is the editor of Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology, forthcoming from Sarabande Books in 2023.