Kerri Webster

2011 Winner in
Poetry

Kerri Webster is author of the poetry collections Grand & Arsenal (2012), winner of the Iowa Prize, and We Do Not Eat Our Hearts Alone (2005), as well as two chapbooks, Psalm Project (2009) and Rowing through Fog, selected by Carl Phillips as a winner of the Poetry Society’s Chapbook Fellowship (2003). Raised in Idaho, Webster completed her MFA at Indiana University. She has taught in the MFA programs at Washington University in St. Louis and Boise State University, and currently lives in Idaho.Webster’s poems have appeared in numerous journals including the Kenyon ReviewPoetry, the Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, At Length, Better, American Poet, the Antioch Review, the Gettysburg Review, the Indiana Review, Newfound, Gulf Coast, Handsome, and the Washington Square Review, among others. Early in her career, Webster won awards from Crazyhorse (Dean Young, judge), River Styx (Mark Doty, judge), the Bellingham Review (Mark Doty, judge), and the Idaho Commission on the Arts.

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Reviews & Praise
From the Selection Committee

Our selection committee found We Do Not Eat Our Hearts Alone “a lovely, strong, first book, mysterious, ineffable, Charles Olson-like on many levels.”