Connie Voisine is the translator of Jazz and Other Prayers, a book of poems by Patron Henekou, and the author of The Bower, which Voisine began writing on a Fulbright Fellowship to Northern Ireland. Her previous book, Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Read More Her first book, Cathedral of the North, won the Associated Writing Program’s Award in Poetry. She has poems published in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Poetry Magazine, Black Warrior Review, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. Educated at Yale University, University of California at Irvine, and University of Utah, Voisine directs the creative writing program at New Mexico State University. She was a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow.