Anna Journey is the author of the collection, If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting (University of Georgia Press, 2009), selected by Thomas Lux for the National Poetry Series. Her poems are published in a number of journals, including American Poetry Review, FIELD, Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, and Shenandoah, and her essays appear in At Length, Blackbird, Notes on Contemporary Literature, Parnassus, and Plath Profiles. Journey holds a Ph.D. in creative writing and literature from the University of Houston, and she recently received a fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches creative writing at the University of Southern California and for PEN Center USA.

If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting (The University of Georgia Press, 2009)

Helen Burns Poetry Anthology: New Voices from the Academy of American Poets’ University & College Prizes (Academy of American Poets, 2010), Best New Poets 2008 (Samovar Press, 2008), Best New Poets 2006 (Samovar Press, 2006)

42opus, American Literary Review, American Poetry Review, Barn Owl Review, Blackbird, Columbia, Diner, Field, Gulf Coast, Hayden's Ferry Review, Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, Mid-American Review, Shenandoah, storySouth, Sycamore Review, Verse Daily, Waccamaw Journal