Gretchen Steele Pratt, originally from Connecticut, received her MFA from Purdue University and currently teaches English at Wingate University and University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Southern Review, Boston Review, The Iowa Review,Indiana Review, Witness, AGNI Online, The Gettysburg Review, Jacket, Post Road, The Southwest Review (winner of the 2007 Morton Marr Poetry Prize), Best New Poets 2009, and on Poetry Daily.
Her manuscript, One Island, was selected as winner of the 2009 Robert Dana Prize for Poetry.
