KARA CANDITO is the author of Taste of Cherry (University of Nebraska Press), winner of the 2008 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. Her poems and reviews have appeared or will appear in such journals as Blackbird, AGNI, Prairie Schooner, The Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, Nimrod, Best New Poets 2007, and Diode. She has received awards for her poetry, including an Academy of American Poets Prize and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
Her poem, “Creation Myth,” appeared in Issue 22.1-Winter/Spring 2010.
