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JC Andrews (she/her), winner of the 2026 Yale Younger Poets Prize, is a lesbian poet from Springfield, Arkansas, with an interest in poems that hold questions as a form of caretaking. Her work can be found in Gulf Coast, The Massachusetts Review, Salt Hill Journal, and elsewhere. Her manuscript, Of an Ilk, was a finalist for the 2024 National Poetry Series, and her poem, ""Gargoyle,"" was the first runner-up of the Palette Poetry 2024 Sappho Prize for Women Poets, judged by Megan Fernandes. She holds a B.A. in English-Creative Writing from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, an MFA from Indiana University, and is currently a student and teacher at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
PRAISE FOR TRILLION AMBER TRUMPETS ""These poems stop me in my tracks, make me bend down to get closer. I follow JC Andrews into the smokehouse and through the cornfield, where she makes a music all her own while nodding to the greats-Yusef Komunyakaa, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, the moons and night dark angels of Frank Stanford."" JANAN ALEXANDRA, author of come from ""There is a beautiful, calm softness that slides along fierceness in these carefully crafted poems. JC Andrews is a poet to watch out for."" MARGUERITE L. HARROLD, author of Chicago House Music ""Tender, strange the way the moment between bud and blossom is strange, so easy to get beautifully lost in, Trillion Amber Trumpets is the kind of collection that rewrites you in small, permanent ways."" TY RASO, author of Mirror Would Be a Beautiful Name for a Child PRAISE FOR JC's OF AN ILK, YALE YOUNGER SERIES PRIZE WINNER ""I'm absolutely exhilarated and truly honored to help bring this fearless, radiant collection to a wider readership. These poems slice effortlessly through the grim malignancies of our present moment, carving out new forms and opening up new spaces for love and survival."" MONICA YOUN, Yale Younger Prize Judge, 2026, author of From From
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