Anna Blackburn's poetry submission, "The Keeping House," is the winner of the 2017 University of Montana Merriam-Frontier Award.

In the judges' words, "[Blackburn] demonstrates a mastery of form with her submission of poems of varying styles and lengths that are united by a tethering narrative. She leads her readers to look at the world differently. And she understands when to push against the page and when to let the form work for her."

Blackburn is an MFA candidate in Poetry and a writing instructor at the University of Montana. She grew up in Vermont and earned a BA in Writing and Literature at Marlboro College. She is the recipient of a Hilly Van Loon Prize.

Please join us for a celebratory reading on Friday, February 24, 5 pm in the Theta Rho Room of the Mansfield Library.