Hadara Bar-Nadav
Kansas City, MO
Poetry
A National Endowment for the Arts fellow, Hadara Bar-Nadav is the award-winning author of five books of poetry, including The Singing Pills (Four Way Books, forthcoming), awarded the Levis Poetry Prize; The New Nudity (Saturnalia Books, 2017); Lullaby (with Exit Sign) (Saturnalia Books, 2013), awarded the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize and a finalist for the Rilke Prize in Poetry; The Frame Called Ruin (New Issues, 2012), awarded Editor’s Selection/Runner-Up for the Green Rose Prize; and A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (Margie/Intuit House, 2007), awarded the Margie Book Prize. She is also the author of two chapbooks: Fountain and Furnace (Tupelo Press, 2015), awarded the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, and Show Me Yours (Laurel Review/Green Tower Press, 2012), awarded the Midwest Poets Series Prize.
In addition, she is co-author of the best-selling textbook Writing Poems, 8th ed. (Pearson, 2011). Her poetry has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Believer, The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares, Poetry, Tin House, and elsewhere. She is currently a Professor of English and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.