What They Believed

Debra Nystrom is the author of four poetry collections: A Quarter Turn, Torn Sky, Bad River Road, and Night Sky Frequencies. Her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Conjunctions, AGNI, Kenyon Review, Slate, The Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. She is on the faculty of the University of Virginia’s MFA in Creative Writing Program. (updated 4/2025)