(Those who read Roman numerals easily may have spotted that the Arabic and Roman numerals in the title are misaligned, and can't I count? The answer is:
Note: the passage I chose for Good Friday this year is from Flannery O Connor s novel The Violent Bear It Away, and spoils one of its vital plot points. I
Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press, 2018), and the chapbook
Chinatown Sonnets (New Delta Review, 2017). She was a 2020 and 2014 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship finalist, a 2020 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry for
Revenge of the Asian Woman, and a 2019 recipient of the Philip Freund Prize in Creative Writing from Cornell University. Her work has appeared in
POETRY,
The American Poetry Review,
Academy of American Poets, and elsewhere. Chan is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Poetry Editor of
Hobart, Book Review Co-Editor of
Pleiades, and Founding Editor and Editor in Chief of