Talvikki Ansel is the author of the poetry collections My Shining Archipelago (Yale Series of Younger Poets Award), Jetty & other poems (Zoo Press), and Somewhere in Space (The Ohio State University Press / The Journal Award in Poetry). Her awards include a Lannan Foundation residency, and a Stegner Fellowship. She has been a writer-in-residence at the James Merrill House. Her poems have been published in Poetry, The Yale Review, FIELD, Colorado Review, and Hotel Amerika.