Devon Walker-Figueroa

Poetry

Devon Walker-Figueroa is originally from Kings Valley, Oregon. She is the author of Lazarus Species (Milkweed Editions, 2025), a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize in Poetry, and Philomath (Milkweed Editions, 2021), a National Poetry Series winner.

writing@bennington.edu

Biography

Devon Walker-Figueroa is originally from Kings Valley, Oregon. She is the author of Lazarus Species (Milkweed Editions, 2025), a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize in Poetry, and Philomath (Milkweed Editions, 2021), a National Poetry Series winner, Levis Reading Prize recipient, and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. An assistant professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, her work appears in The New York Review of Books, Bennington Review, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere.  

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