Congratulations to Lucia Getsi, our first blog contest winner! She will receive a one-year subscription to FWJ for her efforts.
Lucia Cordell Getsi is Distinguished Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature at Illinois State University and twenty-year Editor Emerita of The Spoon River Poetry Review. A past Illinois Author of the Year, she has had multiple fellowships and grants from Fulbright, N.E.A., I.A.C., VCCA, Bundesministerium Austria, and Germany, among others. Lucia lives, writes, teaches, and dances in South Carolina. Black Heaven: Collected Poems of Georg Trakl is forthcoming from Syllabic Press.
Readers, don’t forget: the blog contest is open until April 21, 2012. Send your answers to editors [at] fifthwednesdayjournal [dot] org. We hope to hear from you!