BU Creative Writing

City Structures, the gorgeous new chapbook by Sophie Grimes (Poetry 2011) is available for purchase online. Her publisher, Damask Press, has started a Kickstarter campaign to sell the book. If you visit http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/676925895/help-us-print-city-structures-by-sophie-grimes and pledge $10, you will be emailed a request for your address on around July 24th. The publisher will then mail you a copy of the book.

Sophie Summertown Grimes has lived and traveled in China as an Oberlin Shansi Fellow, and as a Robert Pinsky Global Fellow. She holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from Oberlin College and a Masters of Fine Art in Poetry from Boston University. Her poems have appeared in AGNIonline, 491 Magazine, CRATE, and Spoon River Poetry Review. Second runner-up for the 2011 New Letters Prize for Poetry, she lives and works in Chicago, where she is completing her first full book of poems. She writes poetry reviews for Publishers Weekly, freelance Chicago-centric web content, and contributes to Chicago’s own experimental journal and blog, ANOBIUM.

Congratulations again, Sophie!