Justin Boening’s poetry has received a “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize, and other awards and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Bucknell University, Vermont Studio Center, Summer Literary Seminars, and the St. Petersburg Review. A graduate of Columbia University’s School of the Arts, Boening is currently a senior associate editor at Poetry Northwest and an instructor at the Columbia University Summer High School Program. In his latest chapbook, Not on the Last Day, But on the Very Last: Self-Portrait as Missing Person (Milkweed Editions), Boening liberates himself from himself.
