Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Book Prize

Muriel Nelson’s poetry collections are Part Song, winner of the  Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Book Prize (Bear Star Press), and Most Wanted, winner of the ByLine Chapbook Award (ByLine Press). Nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize, her work has appeared in Barrow Street, Beloit Poetry Journal, Four Way Review, Hunger Mountain, The Massachusetts Review, National Poetry Review, The New Republic, Northwest Review, Ploughshares, and others, and on Verse Daily and Poetry Daily. She holds master’s degrees from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and the University of Illinois School of Music, and lives near Seattle, Washington.