The Personal I: A Craft Talk with Vievee Francis

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Vievee Francis is the author of four books of poetry including The Shared World (Northwestern University Press, 2023), winner of the Vermont Book Award; and Forest Primeval (Northwestern University Press, 2015), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award and the Hurston Wright Legacy Award. She co-wrote the libretto for the transdisciplinary opera The Ritual of Breath.

Her work has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2021 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, and a Rona Jaffe Award. Born in West Texas and raised in the Detroit area, she lives in Vermont, serves as an associate editor for the literary journal Callaloo, and is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College.