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Tyra Leary is an emerging voice in American poetry. Her work has been featured in the Best New Poets series (2019) and in the New Yorker (2020). Leary's first book, 'Sunrises Distant and Unknown,' was recently published by Yale University as part of the Yale Series of Younger Poets.
Awards and Honors:
2018 Rhysling Award
2018 Emily Dickinson Award (Writer Magazine)
2018 Glascock Prize (Mount Holyoke College)
2018 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
2019 Lambda Literary Award
2019 Walt Whitman Award (Academy of American Poets)
2019 Alice Fay di Castagnola Award (Poetry Society of America)
2019 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize
