Turn Around BRXGHT XYXS - Paperback

Ben-Oni, Rosebud: - Born to a Mexican mother and Jewish father, Rosebud Ben-Oni is the winner of 2019 Alice James Award for If This Is the Age We End Discovery, forthcoming in 2021, and the author of TURN AROUND, BRXGHT XYXS (Get Fresh Books, 2019); her chapbook 20 Atomic Sonnets is forthcoming from Black Warrior Review, and is part of a larger project called The Atomic Sonnets, which she wrote in honor of the Periodic Table's 150th Birthday. She is a recipient of the 2014 NYFA Fellowship in Poetry and a 2013 CantoMundo Fellow. Her work appears in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, POETS.org, Poetry Society of America (PSA), The Poetry Review (UK), Tin House, Guernica, Black Warrior Review, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, Hayden's Ferry Review, Ecotone, The Missouri Review, The Journal, Hunger Mountain, The Adroit Journal, The Southeast Review, Salamander, Poetry Northwest, Arts & Letters, North American Review, among others. Recently, her poem Poet Wrestling with Angels in the Dark was commissioned by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in NYC, and published by The Kenyon Review Online. She writes weekly for The Kenyon Review blog. She has an essay forthcoming in Halimah Marcus's new anthology HORSE GIRLS (Harper Perennial, 2021). She's part of the QUEENSBOUND project, founded by KC Trommer, and took part in The Onassis Foundation's ENTER exhibition. She lives in New York City, where she teaches poetry workshops at Catapult, The Speakeasy Project and UCLA Writers' Program online.