is a genre-rousing writer, translator, librettist, and editor. Her work has received critical acclaim from such outlets as The Los Angeles Times, Poetry London (U.K.), Asymptote, Limelight (AUS), Publisher’s Weekly, MINT (India), Classic FM (U.K.), and The Kenyon Review, and she has been translated into Spanish and German. Howell’s Best Book of the Year honors include those from The Best Translated Book Awards, Foreword INDIES Awards, The Nautilus Awards, The Banipal Prize (U.K.), Poets & Writers, Ms. Magazine, The Millions, Library Journal, Bitter Southerner, and others. Among her other awards are the United States Artists Fellowship, the Carson McCullers Fellowship, the Kentucky Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship, the Pushcart Prize, and two winter fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. This fall she will receive the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.
Howell makes her home between Central Kentucky and Northwest Arkansas, where she is an Associate Professor of Poetry & Translation for the University of Arkansas MFA program. She also serves on faculty for the University of the South’s Sewanee School of Letters Low-Residency MFA Program. Howell presents for communities like the Edinburgh Book Festival, the American Academy of Poets, No Kid Hungry, and the Galápagos International Poetry Festival, as well as wherever her work is taught.
Her next book, Erase Genesis, will be released this winter by Project Poëtica/Bridwell Press.