BRITTANY PERHAM

Brittany Perham is the author of Double Portrait (W.W. Norton), which was selected by Claudia Rankine for the Barnard Women Poets Prize; The Curiosities (Free Verse Editions); and, with Kim Addonizio, the collaborative word/art project The Night Could Go in Either Direction (SHP). Her writing has received support from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Hemingway House, the James Merrill House Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, the Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program, and Yaddo. New poetry, fiction, and nonfiction may be found or is forthcoming in The Cortland Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and Tupelo Quarterly. Her new book, Executrix, was selected by Cheryl Strayed for the AWP Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction and will be published by the University of Georgia Press in 2026.

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