Steve Bellin-Oka

Steve Bellin-Oka’s first book of poems, Instructions for Seeing a Ghost, won the 2019 Vassar Miller Prize and was published by the University of North Texas Press in February 2020. He is also the author of three chapbooks, most recently Out of the Frame (Walls Divide Press, 2019). He lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he is a Tulsa Artist Fellow in poetry. His other honors include fellowships from the National Parks Arts Foundation, Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. His translation work has also been supported by the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference.