Justin Boening

Justin Boening is the author of Not on the Last Day, but on the Very Last, a winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series, as well as Self-Portrait as Missing Person, which was awarded a Poetry Society of America National Chapbook Fellowship. He is a recipient of the “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize, a work-study scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, a Stadler Fellowship from Bucknell University, and a Henry David Thoreau Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. His poetry and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in a variety of literary journals such as Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review Online, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, Narrative, andTYPO, among others. Boening is currently a senior associate editor at Poetry Northwest, and is cofounding editor at Horsethief Books.