About

Ada Limón, the poet with an impressive lineup of books including Lucky Wreck, This Big Fake World, and Sharks in the Rivers, racked up a fancy Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from none other than New York University. This literary powerhouse has snagged fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, proving she's quite the go-getter. In a delightful twist, she was also a judge for the 2013 National Book Award in Poetry—a title that probably sounds cooler than any math trophy in school. Splitting her time between Lexington, Kentucky, and Sonoma, California, with frequent detours to New York, she manages to juggle her duties as a creative writing instructor and freelance writer without breaking a sweat