Ariana Nadia Nash is a poet and a PhD student in the Poetics Program. Her primary research examines the long history of realism in American poetry. Her first article on the subject, "Realist Poetry and Paul Laurence Dunbar's Majors and Minors," was published in J19: The Journal of Nineteenth Century Americanists in Spring 2022. Her first collection of poetry, Instructions for Preparing Your Skin, won the 2011 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. She has an MFA from UNC Wilmington and an MA from University of Chicago and previously taught at both institutions. She is the recipient of a MacDowell Residency and an Academy of American Poets Prize, among other awards. For more information and to contact her, please visit www.ariananadianash.com.