Cynthia Arrieu-King's "Manifest," winner of the Gateway Prize by Switchback Books, (selected by Harryette Mullen), will be out in February!

Congrats, dear Cynthia!

You can read her The Next Big Thing self-interview up here: http://cynthiaarrieuking.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-next-big-thing.html

Cynthia Arrieu-King works as an associate professor of creative writing at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and a former Kundiman fellow. She is the author of two collections of poetry, People are Tiny in Paintings of China (2010) and Manifest (2013). She also co-wrote a chapbook with Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis By a Year Lousy with Meteors (2012). Her first book appeared on The Believer’s Reader’s Choice Poetry List in 2011 and was mentioned on Seth Abramson’s list of best contemporary works of poetry in The Huffington Post. She runs a radio show through WLFR (wlfr.fm) about writers and writing in South Jersey and the tri-state called The Last Word.