Becoming Eve

Janine Certo is the author of four full-length poetry collections: Becoming Eve (Bordighera Press, 2026); O Body of Bliss, winner of the Longleaf Poetry Prize (2023); Elixir, winner of both the New American Poetry Prize and the Lauria/Frasca Poetry Prize (New American Press and Bordighera Press, 2021); and In the Corner of the Living, runner-up for the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award (2017). Honors include the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry and the Editor's Choice Award for the Charles Simic Poetry Prize. She is an associate professor at Michigan State University and assistant poetry editor of Italian Americana. She lives in East Lansing, Michigan.