Valencia Robin is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice includes poetry and painting. A recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, her debut poetry collection, Ridiculous Light, won Persea Books’ First Book Prize, was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and was named one of Library Journal’s best poetry books of 2019. Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, The Virginia Quarterly Review as well as other publications. She lives and teaches in Johnson City, Tennessee.