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Two poems from Mutiny Gallery have been nominated for a 2012 Pushcart Prize-- "Museum of Miscellanea" and "Museum of Ordinary People."  Truman is indeed one of the best of the small presses!

Richard Howard writes ". . . America has given B. K. Fischer the Dream and she gives back all she woke to find. . . .  Her visionary poetry is a good mother's song, her novel a bad boy's scream. . ." Read more.

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B. K. Fischer is a poet, critic, editor, and teacher.  Her book Mutiny Gallery won the 2011 T. S. Eliot Prize and was released by Truman State University Press in October 2011.  Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Boston Review, The Hopkins Review, Ekphrasis, Southwest Review, Western Humanities Review, FIELD, Literary Mama, Westchester Magazine, and other journals.  Her first poetry manuscript, The Anatomy Archives, was a finalist for the 2009 National Poetry Series, and has also been shortlisted for the FIELD Prize and the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award.  A monologue from the collection was performed as a play at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill, New York, in January 2008.  She is the author of a critical study of the intersections of visual and verbal art, Museum Mediations: Reframing Ekphrasis in Contemporary American Poetry (Routledge, 2006), and a frequent contributor of review essays to Boston Review.  She holds a B.A. from the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars, an M.F.A. in poetry from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from New York University, and has taught writing and literature at Columbia, NYU, and Marymount College.  Fischer is co-editor of Slapering Hol Press and teaches at the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center in Sleepy Hollow, New York, where she lives with her husband and three children.