Devon Walker-Figueroa at Portland Book Festival

Devon Walker-Figueroa grew up in the Oregon Coast Range and attended Cornell University, Bennington College, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and New York University, where she was the Jill Davis Fellow in fiction. Her debut collection Philomath was selected by Sally Keith for the National Poetry Series, won the Levis Reading Prize, and was the first poetry book to be a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. Walker-Figueroa is currently a visiting faculty member at Bennington College.