Cara Dees

Lecturer

Cara Dees is the author of the poetry collection, Exorcism Lessons in the Heartland, selected by Ada Limón for the Barrow Street Book Prize. Her work appears or is forthcoming in publications such as The Atlantic, Best New Poets, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, The Hudson Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, and Washington Square Review. Exorcism Lessons in the Heartland was also named a finalist or semifinalist for the Brittingham & Felix Pollak Prizes in Poetry, the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize, The Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize, the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, the St. Lawrence Book Award, and the Autumn House Rising Writers Prize.

Among her awards are Vanderbilt University's Third Year Fellowship and University Fellowship, an Academy of American Poets Prize from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the 2015 Miller Williams Translation Award, a scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the University of Cincinnati’s University Research Council Graduate Stipend Award. She has also served as the Vice President of the English Graduate Organization at the University of Cincinnati, an Editorial Assistant at Cincinnati Review, a founding editor and the Managing Editor of The Arkansas International, and the Poetry Co-Editor and Comics Editor of Nashville Review.