The 2011 Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize

Congratulations, Lexa Hillyer! 

We are pleased to announce that Lexa Hillyer has won the second annual
Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize with her collection Acquainted with the Cold.

Lexa Hillyer received her MFA in poetry from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine. She has won the Inaugural Poetry Prize from Tusculum Review and the First Prize in Poetry from Brick & Mortar Review. Lexa edited at Harper Collins and Penguin before co-founding Paper Lantern Lit.

Acquainted with the Cold will be published by Bona Fide Books in 2012.

We would also like to extend our congratulations to the finalists:

Ruth Foley, The Importance of the Body
S.A. Massaro, Blue & Other Perils
Jennifer Habel, Good Reason
Andrew Gottlieb, Vagrants

Thank you again to all who submitted for sending us your work. Please try us again next year!