Lucy Ives

Lucy Ives was born in New York City and earned her BA from Harvard College and her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her first collection, the book-length poem Anamnesis (2009), won the Slope Editions Book Prize. She is also the author of a poetry and essay collection, Orange Roses (2013), and a collection of poetry and prose including a novella, The Worldkillers (2014). Ives won an Iowa Arts Fellowship, as well as a MacCracken Fellowship. She is the editor of Triple Canopy and lives in New York City, where she is completing a PhD in comparative literature at New York University.