Rochelle Hurt is the author of three books of poetry: The J Girls: A Reality Show (IU Press, 2022), which won the Blue Light Books Prize from Indiana Review; In Which I Play the Runaway (Barrow Street, 2016), which won the Barrow Street Poetry Prize; and The Rusted City: A Novel in Poems (White Pine, 2014), which was selected for the Marie Alexander Series in prose poetry. Her work has been included in the Best New Poets anthology series and she's been awarded prizes and fellowships from Arts & Letters, Hunger Mountain, Poetry International, Vermont Studio Center, Jentel, and Yaddo. Recent poems and essays appear in POETRY, Prairie Schooner, Iowa Review, and elsewhere.