Cara Dees

Cara Dees is the author of the debut collection Exorcism Lessons in the Heartland (2019), selected by Ada Limón for the 2018 Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize. She earned an MFA from Vanderbilt University and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Cincinnati. Her work appears or is forthcoming in such venues as Best New Poets 2016, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, The Journal, Poetry Daily, and The Southeast Review.