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Karen Skolfield (MFA '98) published a book of poems titled Battle Dress earlier this month (W. W. Norton). Battle Dress was awarded the Barnard Women Poets Prize, an honor for exemplary second collections of poetry by a woman in the United States. Skolfield was recently interviewed in Poets & Writers about the process and content of her latest book. 

Earlier this year, Skolfield was additionally named poet laureate in Northampton, MA. 

Skolfield currently teaches writing in the College of Engineering at UMass Amherst. For more information, please check out her website.