W.J. Herbert
Front cover of Dear Specimen by Maine writer W.J. Herbert

W.J. Herbert

W.J. Herbert’s debut poetry collection, Dear Specimen, was chosen by Kwame Dawes as a winner of the 2020 National Poetry Series. Her work, selected by Natasha Trethewey for inclusion in Best American Poetry 2017, also appears, or is forthcoming, in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Atlantic, Hudson Review, Southwest Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Kingston, New York and Portland, Maine.