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Dara-Lyn Shrager lives in Princeton, New Jersey and is the co-founder and editor of Radar Poetry. She is the author of Little Knives (Kelsay Books, 2026) and Whiskey, X-Ray, Yankee (Barrow Street, 2018), a finalist for the Barrow Street Poetry Prize. Her work was also a finalist for the Akron Poetry Prize, the Perugia Prize and the Brittingham and Pollak Prizes from the University of Wisconsin Press.
Dara-Lyn holds an MFA from Bennington College and a BA from Smith College. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in many journals, including The Iowa Review, The Los Angeles Review, Crab Creek Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Greensboro Review, Nashville Review, Passages North, Salamander, Thrush, and Yemassee. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net and also appears in the anthology Braving the Body (Harbor Editions, 2024). Her articles have been published in newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Philadelphia Magazine.