Poetry. CIRCASSIAN GIRL by Michele Mitchell-Foust is one of the winners of the Elixir Press Inaugural Poetry Awards. "This is a book abounding in evocation's (often subtle and indiscreet, yet always energetic), of museums, galleries, stages--all such bounded areas within which events are given leave to be. These poems are an exhilarating set of dynamism's"--Bin Ramke. Her poetry has appeared in such publications as Denver Quarterly, The Nation, and Colorado Review. She lives in California.

Author City: Dana Point, CA USA

Dr. Michelle Mitchell-Foust lives in Dana Point, California, where she is an instructor at Irvine Valley College. Graduating from Eastern with a BA from Eastern Illinois University and a doctorate in English from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Interim, Black Warrior Review, American Literary Review, Columbia, Southern Poetry Review, The Academy of American Poets New Voices Anthology, Elixir, Equinox, Fabric, The Honest Ulsterman, and Quarterly West. She has been an American Poet in Residence in Donegal, Ireland since 1996.