Dawn Manning is the author of Postcards from the Dead Letter Office. Honors for her work include the Beullah Rose Poetry Prize, the San Miguel Writers' Poetry Prize, the Edith Garlow Poetry Prize, and many honorable mentions, including a Pushcart nomination. She was the 2017 Mona Van Duyn Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. Her poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Ecotone, Fairy Tale Review, Smartish Pace, and other literary journals. She lives in the Greater Philadelphia area and works as a writer, writing consultant, and metalsmith.

Books by Dawn Manning:

Other poems on the web by Dawn Manning:
"Last Rites"
"Birth, Labor"
"Salt Myth"

Dawn Manning's Website.

Dawn Manning on Twitter.

About Postcards From The Dead Letter Office:

"Dawn Manning's Postcards from the Dead Letter Office takes the Japanese form of the tanka around the world. Tension persists in the short and long breaths of the form, as well as in the live ants pillaging the body of the dead cat, the specificity of place and the commonness of piano tunes, the moonlight found everywhere, even on laptop screens. Manning's images are surprising and fresh, visiting all seasons, all new lives, and as many of the dead as possible. Each place these poems visit are enriched by detail and defined by absence, by 'all we leave unsaid, all we can't unsay'-wracked by everything forgotten or the refusal to speak, haunted by every word uttered, every missive sent to the Dead Letter Office."
—Traci Brimhall