Chryss Yost

Poetry

Working toward a publishable draft of an original poem

Thursday
9:00 – 11:30 AM
RM 1-240

Chryss Yost is a Santa Barbara Poet Laureate who served from 2013-2015. She was awarded the 2013 Patricia Dobler Poetry Prize and other honors, including Pushcart Prize nominations. She's co-editor of Gunpowder Press. Her collection Mouth & Fruit was published 2014, and her poems have been included in the most popular poetry textbooks in the country and widely anthologized elsewhere. She's a founding faculty member of the Santa Barbara Writers Conference's Poetry Conference.