I feel incredibly grateful to have recently been awarded a Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund grant from Writers Victoria to attend the 2022 Tin House Summer Workshop. Many, many thanks to Writers Victoria and the Myer Foundation for their support and the panel, which included author Ronnie Gorrie, writer and editor Radhiah Chowdhury, and publisher and previous Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund recipient Arwen Summers.

Although I have been lucky enough to attend Tin House virtually in the past, this time will be the first time I’ll be attending in person. Tin House Summer Workshop is an annual competitive writers’ conference of workshops, lectures, and readings run by Tin House Books in Portland, Oregon. I’m really looking forward to being able to learn and discuss poetry in a progressive and rigorous US environment (with Paisley Rekdal, no less!), as well as to meet some online poetry friends for the first time in the flesh!