The Plaza Prose Poetry Prize is entering its third year in 2025. We try to recruit the best prose poets in the world to judge your prose poems. We’ve had Maya C. Popa, Carrie Etter, and now we have Nin Andrews.

Nin has written 10 collections of poetry, and 6 chapbooks, including The Last Orgasm (2020), Miss August (2017), and Why God is a Woman (2015). She is the recipient of two Ohio individual artists grants, the Pearl Chapbook prize, The Kent State University chapbook contest, and the Gerald Cable Award. Her book, Southern Comfort, was a finalist for the Forward prize in poetry 2010, and her collection, Why God is a Woman won the Ohiona Prize for poetry in 2016.

Her poetry has been featured in numerous journals and anthologies including Ploughshares, Agni, The Paris Review, four editions of Best American Poetry, Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present, and The Best American Erotic Poems.

After her first book, The Book of Orgasms, turned into a cult classic, she became known as “the queen of orgasms.” Her poetry has been translated into Turkish, performed in Prague and anthologized in England, Australia, and Mongolia. She is also the editor of a book of translations of the Belgian writer, Henri Michaux. Her collection, Son or a Bird, a Memoir in Prose Poems is forthcoming in 2025 from Etruscan Press.

Nin is an expert in this exciting hybrid form. She resides and writes in Charlottesville, Ohio, in the good ole US of A.

So, please send Nin your prose poems. To be long-listed (that’s the final 20) is an achievement. To be shortlisted in the Top 10, or place second or third, or to win will be a validation of your skills, and get you published in our third anthology, in 2025.