Roy Bentley

Roy Bentley's poems have appeared in North American Review, Blackbird, Shenandoah, Rattle, The Southern Review, and Prairie Schooner--as well as many other notable journals and magazines. He is the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and fellowships from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs and the Ohio Arts Council. His fifth book, Walking with Eve in the Loved City, was a finalist for the 2018 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, and selected by series editor Billy Collins. A new collection, My Mother's Red Ford: New & Selected (1986-2020), is available from Lost Horse Press in Sandpoint, Idaho; as well as Beautiful Plenty, which was released last year by Main Street Rag.