

The recipient of a 2010 "Discovery" / Boston Review Poetry Prize and a MacDowell fellowship, her poetry appears in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Tin House, and other publications. The collection's sense of continuity and coherence comes through recurring poem types, including "still lifes," "instructions," and "symptoms."Ĭamille Rankine is the author of the chapbook Slow Dance with Trip Wire, selected by Cornelius Eady for the Poetry Society of America's Chapbook Fellowship. Rankine's short, lyric poems are sharp, agonized, and exquisite, exploring themes of doubt and identity. Named "a poet to watch" by O Magazine, Camille Rankine's debut collection is a series of provocations and explorations. "I tell the truth, but I try to be kind about it."-Camille Rankine in 12 Questions
