Amelia Sage Van Donsel was selected by Danez Smith as the winner of the Nassau Literary Festival Poetry Prize, has been awarded by the Academy of American Poets, and has published poems in FENCE, Conjunctions, Bennington Review, and elsewhere. She is finishing her MFA in poetry at UMass Amherst, where she currently teaches and works with the UMass Jail Education Initiative. She is a 2025 Juniper Working Fellow, and her poems are forthcoming in Scaffold Magazine.
