Haskins... understands Lorca's idea of duende, a passionate spirit, and evokes it naturally in her work. -- Booklist

Ariana Nadia Nash's Instructions for Preparing Your Skin is an exquisitely passionate first book. Mostly I am struck by the lyrical frankness of the poems, and how they sustain an uncanny purity and yet are totally down to earth. -- Malena Mörling

Only Blue Body is about becoming animal in a world that is not fairytale. Exquisitely written, its poems boldly confront contemporary fear and beauty. "I've always wanted dark blue skin" writes the poet -- and it's a bruise she's after, the throat unguarded, the jaw tipped upward. Viewed from a "constricted point of light," everything is out of scale, fearfully small or far too big. Much of the imagery startles: a mosquito becomes a brood mare, a horse a grackle. You can't take your eyes off the fire's "salamander-shaped eddies" because nothing in the poem suggests its arrival, nothing predicts its exit. -- Contest judge Terese Svoboda

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