Chosen by Kwame Dawes as a winner of the 2020 National Poetry Series, W.J. Herbert’s debut poetry collection, Dear Specimen, is forthcoming from Beacon Press in Fall, 2021. Her work, selected by Natasha Trethewey for inclusion in Best American Poetry 2017 also appears, or is forthcoming, in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Atlantic, Hudson Review, Southwest Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Kingston, New York, and Portland, Maine.
