Rochelle Hurt is a poet and essayist. She is the author of three poetry collections: The J Girls: A Reality Show (Indiana University Press, 2022), which won the Blue Light Books Prize; IN WHICH I PLAY THE RUNAWAY (Barrow Street, 2016), which won the Barrow Street Poetry Prize; and The Rusted City: A Novel in Poems (White Pine, 2014). Her work has been included in Poetry magazine and the Best New Poets anthology, and she's been awarded prizes and fellowships from Prairie Schooner, Arts & Letters, Poetry International, Vermont Studio Center, and Yaddo. She lives in Orlando and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Central Florida.
