Valerie Bandura

Born in the former Soviet Union, Valerie Bandura is the author of Human Interest (Black Lawrence Press, 2017) and Freak Show (Black Lawrence Press, 2013), a Brittingham Poetry Prize runner-up and Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Gettysburg Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Alaska Quarterly Review, ZYZZYVA, and others. She received the Arizona Commission on the Arts Artist Grant, the Joan Beebe Teaching Fellow at Warren Wilson College, the James Merrill Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, a residency from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She teaches writing at Arizona State University.