On August 21st Best New Poets announced their winners for 2012, and the lineup included several scribblers who have recently been affiliated with The Journal, including: Tory Adkisson (former The Journal poetry editor), Oliver Bendorf (featured in The Journal 36.1), Michael Martin Shea (featured in The Journal 36.3), Chris Tanseer (featured in The Journal 36.1), and Jane Wong (featured in The Journal 36.3). Lots of celebrating to be done in the name of our contributors and former editor (and a note to contributors, if your work receives accolades elsewhere, let us know about it at online@thejournalmag.org, and we’ll chat you up on Twitter, Facebook and/or our blog).
Michael Larson was born and raised on a horse farm in the small town of Rainier, Washington. He earned his B.A. from Dartmouth College, before moving to Mutsu, Japan, where he lived and worked as a middle-school English teacher for two years. He is currently in the Creative Writing MFA Program at The Ohio State University, and serves as online editor for The Journal.