Rochelle Hurt is the author of four books of poetry, including Lightboxes (forthcoming from Tupelo Press), which won the 2025 Dorset Prize; The J Girls: A Reality Show (Indiana University Press, 2022), which won the Blue Light Books Prize; In Which I Play the Runaway (Barrow Street, 2016), which won the Barrow Street Poetry Prize; and The Rusted City: A Novel in Poems (White Pine, 2014); as well as Book of Non (Broadstone Books, 2023), a collaboration with Carol Guess. Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Georgia Review, and dozens of other journals. She's been awarded prizes and fellowships from Arts & Letters, Poetry International, Vermont Studio Center, Jentel, and Yaddo. Hurt lives in Knoxville and teaches in the MFA and PhD programs in creative writing at the University of Tennessee.
