Vievee Francis is the author of four books of poetry: Blue-Tail Fly (WSU, 2006), Horse in the Dark (winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Poetry Prize for a second collection, Northwestern University Press, 2006), Forest Primeval (winner of the Hurston Wright Legacy Award and the 2017 Kingsley-Tufts Award), and The Shared World (Northwestern University Press, 2023). She most recently received the 2021 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, textbooks, and anthologies, including Poetry, Harvard Review, Best American Poetry, spin.com, and Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry. She has served as an Associate Editor for Callaloo. She is currently an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College.