Ned Balbo

Ned Balbo's 3 Nights of the Perseids won the 2018 Richard Wilbur Award. His previous books include Upcycling Paumanok, Lives of the Sleepers , awarded the Ernest Sandeen Poetry Prize, and The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems , awarded the Poets' Prize and the Donald Justice Prize. He is the recipient of a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowship for his version of Paul Val�ry's "La Jeune Parque," three Maryland Arts Council poetry grants, the Robert Frost Foundation...See more

Ned Balbo's 3 Nights of the Perseids won the 2018 Richard Wilbur Award. His previous books include Upcycling Paumanok, Lives of the Sleepers , awarded the Ernest Sandeen Poetry Prize, and The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems , awarded the Poets' Prize and the Donald Justice Prize. He is the recipient of a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowship for his version of Paul Val�ry's "La Jeune Parque," three Maryland Arts Council poetry grants, the Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award, and more. His poetry and prose appear recently in The Common , The Dark Horse , The Hopkins Review , New Criterion , Pleiades, Scoundrel Time , and elsewhere. Balbo is married to poet-essayist Jane Satterfield and was recently a visiting faculty member in Iowa State University's MFA program in creative writing and environment. See less