Stefi Weisburd

Stefi Weisburd is the author of two poetry collections, The Wind-Up Gods, which won the St. Lawrence Book Award and Barefoot: Poems for Naked Feet (for children).  Her poems have appeared in APR, Poetry, The Paris Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review and other journals and anthologies.  She received the “Discovery”/The Nation prize in 2002 and has been a scholar at Bread Loaf and the Post-Graduate Writers’ Conference.  Weisburd has worked as a policy analyst for Congress, an editor at Science News magazine and a science journalist.

She lives with her family in Albuquerque where she works as an outreach coordinator for science programs at the University of New Mexico.