Chessy Normile

Chessy Normile is the author of Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party (2020 APR/Honickman First Book Prize), named one of the Best Poetry Books of 2020 in The New York Times and included in the 16th Annual Look at Debut Poets in Poets & Writers Magazine. She received an MFA from The Michener Center for Writers at UT-Austin, was a Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellow with the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing at UW-Madison, and was a Wisconsin's Own Poet-in-Residence at Ripon College. She is the Managing Editor of either/or magazine and teaches writing at UW-Whitewater.