R. Flowers Rivera

R. Flowers Rivera is native of Mississippi. Xavier Review Press published her debut poetry collection, Troubling Accents, which received a nomination from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and was selected by the Texas Authors Association as its 2014 Poetry Book of the Year. Rivera’s second collection, Heathen, was selected by poet and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller as the winner of the 2014 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Prize. Her short story, “The Iron Bars,” won the Peregrine Prize, and she has been a finalist for the May Swenson Award, the Journal Intro Award, the Gary Snyder Memorial Award, the Paumanok Award, the Crab Orchard Series, and the Gival Poetry Prize. She lives in downtown Dallas.