Nancy Takacs's poetry awards include The Juniper Prize, the 2018 and 2016 15 Bytes Book Award for Poetry, Weber's Sherwin W. Howard Award, a 2020 Pushcart Prize, and a runner-up for the Missouri Review Editor's Prize. She is the author of three other books of poetry and four chapbooks. Nancy lives most of the year in the high-desert town of Wellington, Utah, and spends time in Bayfield, Wisconsin, near the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, in a small cabin with her husband, poet Jan Minich. Their son Ian Minich is a photographer in Salt Lake City. Nancy is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Utah's art hub: Helper City.