Nancy Takacs’s poetry awards include The Juniper Prize, the 2018 and 2016 15 Bytes Book Award, Weber’s Sherwin W. Howard Award, a Pushcart Prize, and runner-up for the Missouri Review Editor’s Prize. Her latest book is Dearest Water. She is the author of three other books of poetry and four chapbooks. Nancy lives most of the year in the high-desert town of Wellington, Utah, and spends time in Bayfield, Wisconsin near the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, in a small cabin with her husband, poet Jan Minich. Nancy is the inaugural poet laureate of Utah’s art hub: Helper City.
