
Keith Ekiss is co-winner of the 2024 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize, for his book Burial Fragments (Gunpowder Press, 2025). He is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. He is the author of Pima Road Notebook (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2010) and translator of The Fire’s Journey (Tavern Books, 2019), an epic poem by the Costa Rican writer Eunice Odio in four volumes. Territory of Dawn: The Selected Poems of Eunice Odio was published in Spring, 2016 by The Bitter Oleander Press. He is the past recipient of fellowships and residencies from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Community of Writers’ Conference, Millay Colony for the Arts, Santa Fe Art Institute, and the Petrified Forest National Park.