Kerrin McCadden is the author of American Wake (Black Sparrow Press, 2021). Her debut collection, Landscape with Plywood Silhouettes, won the Vermont Book Award and the New Issues Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, Keep This to Yourself, was awarded the Button Poetry Prize. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and the Sustainable Arts Foundation Writing Award, as well as the Herb Lockwood Prize in the Arts.  She lives in South Burlington, Vermont.