Jo Blair Cipriano is the winner of an Academy of American Poets Prize, two University of Arizona MFA Creative Writing Awards, and has received support from Tin House, the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and Brooklyn Poets. A former college dropout, Jo was a 2024 Writer-In-Residence at the Hemingway House, and is now an MFA candidate at the University of Arizona where they are a Southwest Field Studies in Writing fellow.