Marilyn Krysl
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Marilyn Krysl's poetry has appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic and the Pushcart Prize Anthology, her fiction in Best American Short Stories 2000 and O. Henry Prize Stories. Dinner with Osama won the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction and Foreword Magazine's 2008 Book of the Year Bronze Medal, and Warscape, with Lovers won the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize 1997. Swear the Burning Vow: Selected and New Poems 2009 is her tenth collection of poetry. She has served as artist in residence at the Center for Human Caring, worked for Peace Brigade International in Sri Lanka and volunteered at Mother Teresa's Kalighat Home for the Destitute and Dying in Calcutta. Alicia Ostriker has said of her work, "Krysl's poetry is funny, funky, tragic, brave, lyrical, humane, political and full of surprises....She is still writing the liveliest sestinas in America."
Winning Entry: Mullaitivu, Sri Lanka 2009: The Road
Contest Won: War Poetry Contest 2011, Honorable Mention
