Blue Between Owls

Daye Phillippo says she's lived her life backwards, first raising a large family and later earning degrees in Creative Writing from Purdue University (2011) and Warren Wilson MFA for Writers (2014). She is the recipient of a Mortarboard Fellowship, an Elizabeth George Grant for work in progress, and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship for poetry. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was selected by Educational Testing Services for inclusion in the AP English exam. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Valparaiso Poetry Review, The Midwest Quarterly, LETTERS, Shenandoah, Cider Press Review, One Art, Natural Bridge, Presence, The Windhover, and many others. She taught English at Purdue University and now hosts a Poetry Hour at her local library at which Katniss, the library cat, is also a welcomed guest. Phillippo lives with her husband in a creaky old farmhouse in rural Indiana, where she tends a garden and a lively flock of Barred Rock hens. Thunderhead, her debut collection of poems, was published by Slant in 2020. Her second collection, Blue Between Owls, won the 2024 Codhill Press Pauline Uchmanowicz Poetry Award.