Monica Claesson’s current and forthcoming publications include journals such as The Tampa Review, The Pittsburgh Poetry Review, New Bile, Laurus, and The Alalitcom. Her poetry won the 2015 University of Nebraska Undergraduate Poetry Award, the 2014 and 2015 Laurus Poetry Awards, the 2016 Vreeland Award for Poetry, and placed in the 2011 Alabama Writer’s Conclave Poetry Division.