Poetry. Winner of the Tupelo Press Editors' Prize in Poetry. "Here is a poetry of hope 'with a bruised hue,' of grace exactly in its right residence, amid the real: rusted, stalled-out trucks; octopi and owls; trees taking root on naked rock, finding sustenance - as does the poet - in the incidental presences of water and mosses. Francine Sterle's language brings forth this carefully observed world with a precise and almost electrical fragrance. Her poems inform, illumine, and sustain this human life we share with the wider life of being" -- Jane Hirshfield
Francine Sterle holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from Warren Wilson College and has studied writing in a variety of academic and workshop settings. She is the author of Every Bird is One Bird, which won the Editor's Prize from Tupelo Press and was nominated for both a Pushcart Prize and a Northeastern Minnesota Book Award.