Drew Blanchard holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Iowa and an MFA in poetry from the Ohio State University. He is currently a PhD candidate in English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he has twice been awarded The Academy of American Poets Prize. Salmon Poetry will publish his first full-length collection of poems, Winter Dogs, in the spring of 2011. In January of 2009 he received a university research grant to work with the Peruvian novelist, Iván Thays in Lima, Perú and in the summer of 2010 he was a graduate student scholar at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, a scholarship provided by the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures. His writing has appeared in Best New Poets, Notre Dame Review, Guernica / a magazine of art & politics, Blackbird, Meridian and elsewhere.

contact: blancha5@uwm.edu