Josephine Yu’s first manuscript, Prayer Book of the Anxious, won the Judge’s Prize of the 15th Annual Elixir Press Poetry Awards and will be published in 2016. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, TriQuarterly, Crab Orchard Review, and elsewhere, as well as in The Best New Poets 2008 and Old Flame: From the First 10 Years of 32 Poems Magazine. She has won _Ploughshares’_s Emerging Writers Contest, _Meridian’_s Editor’s Prize, the New Letters Poetry Award, and the New Letters Readers Award for Poetry. (updated 9/2015)