Sasha Debevec-McKenney

Sasha Debevec-McKenney is the author of the debut poetry collection Joy Is My Middle Name, which won the 2026 Dylan Thomas Prize. She received her MFA from New York University, was the 2020–2021 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, and a 2023-2025 Creative Writing Fellow at Emory University. Her poems have been published widely, including in places like The New Yorker, The Yale Review, Granta, and The New York Review of Books. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut and currently teaches poetry in Michigan.