Jennifer Loyd is a poet based in West Texas and a PhD student at Texas Tech University. A former Stadler Fellow and editor for Copper Nickel, West Branch, and Sycamore Review, she also holds an MFA from Purdue University. Her poems and prose, which explore the intersection between private voice and public narratives, appear in The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, The Shore, Colorado Gardener, and elsewhere.
Ernest Hemingway purportedly said of Dawn Powell that she was his “favorite living writer.” Powell’s reputation has dwindled since then, and so I picked up A Time to Be Born in an…