Nancy Takacs

Nancy Takacs’s latest poetry collection is Blue Patina (Blue Begonia Press, 2015). She is a recipient of the 2013 Sherwin W. Howard Poetry Award from Weber—The Contemporary West, the Kay Saunders New Poet Prize, two Ucross residencies, several writing awards from the Utah Arts Council, and the Discovery/The Nation Award. She lives in Wellington, Utah, and in Bayfield, Wisconsin. Her book-length manuscript The Worrier was a 2015 finalist for the National Poetry Series.