Easy Street | Cindy King

  Cindy King’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Sun, Callaloo, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, American Literary Review, TriQuarterly, Crab Orchard Review, Gettysburg Review, River Styx, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. You can hear her read her work online at weekendamerica.publicradio.org, rhinopoetry.org, and at cortlandreview.com. She has been awarded a Tennessee Williams Scholarship to attend the Sewanee Writers' Workshop. Most recently, her poems were chosen for the Betty Gabehart Prize by the University of Kentucky. She has also received the Agha Shahid Ali Scholarship in Poetry from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where she continued revising her book-length manuscript, Zoonotic. It will be published by Tinderbox Editions in 2020. Cindy was born in Cleveland, Ohio and grew up swimming in the shadows of the hyperboloid cooling towers on the shores of Lake Erie. At 23, she moved to Mississippi and has lived most of her life as a naturalized South