Ada Limn Author & Editor

Ada Limnis the twenty-fourth U.S. Poet Laureate as well as the author ofThe Hurting Kindandfive other collections of poems. These include, most recently,The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, andBright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award. Limn is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her work has appeared in theNew Yorker, theNew York Times,andAmerican Poetry Review, among others.Born and raised in California, she now lives in Lexington, Kentucky.