About Sasha Debevec-McKenney
Sasha Debevec-McKenney is the author of the poetry collection Joy Is My Middle Name, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions and W.W. Norton in 2025. A debut poetry collection with themes including race, addiction and womanhood which has won the 2026 Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize. The collection, chosen in a unanimous decision by judges, is “an exuberant, blistering collection full of life, humour and ideas. Debevec-McKenney is a ferociously gifted talent,” said Irenosen Okojie, chair of judges. “The book is remarkable in the way it galvanises the reader with a sense of intimacy that is authentic and a voice that feels like an antidote to our tricky times.”Debevec-McKenney was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and now lives in Decatur, Georgia, where she is a creative writing fellow at Emory University. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books and the Yale Review.
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