Don Colburn’s poems have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Innisfree, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, and Southern Poetry Review and won the Discovery/The Nation Prize. He has published five poetry collections, including four chapbooks; all five found publication by winning or placing in national manuscript competitions. His newest chapbook, Mortality, With Pronoun Shifts, won the 2018 Cathy Smith Bowers Prize, and Hunger Mountain awarded him this year’s Ruth Stone Poetry Prize. Other honors include residencies at The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, and five Pushcart Prize nominations. Mr. Colburn came to poetry in the midst of a career as a newspaper reporter for The Washington Post and other papers. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing. He has an MFA degree from Warren Wilson College.
