Christiane Jacox’s first book of poetry, Bears Dancing in the Northern Air (Yale University Press, 1991), received the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1990. Her translation of Gabriela Mistral’s Poemas de las Madres was published by Eastern Washington University Press in 1996. In the years since, her translations and poems have made their slow way into journals including Poetry magazine, Sundog Lit, Prairie Schooner, The Connecticut Poetry Review, Water~Stone Review, and The New Millennium Writing Awards (honorable mention).