Margaree Little

Margaree Little is the author of Rest (Four Way Books, 2018), winner of the 2018 Balcones Poetry Prize and the 2019 Audre Lorde Award. Her most recent book is a work of translation, At the Edge: Selected Political Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva (Green Linden Press, November 2025). She has received fellowships and residencies from The Kenyon Review, the Camargo Foundation, and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, among others. She lives in Tucson.

The Value of Support

"When I was in graduate school, my teacher Mary Szybist—one of the first recipients of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award—told me that I should approach my writing with the discipline I would bring to any other work. What she meant, she explained, was that as women we are conditioned and expected to put so much else first, to give our time and energy away to others before we give it to our own writing. For me, receiving a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award in 2013 was crucial not only in the support at the time, which allowed me to complete my first book and begin the tentative, searching work toward my second manuscript in progress. It also gave me the courage to make this choice: to respect the gift of my writing, and to believe in it."