Beth Bachmann’s Temper, winner of the 2008 AWP Award Series Donald Hall Prize (published in Fall 2009 by University of Pittsburgh Press), was selected by judges Linda Gregerson, Carl Phillips, Paul Muldoon, Ted Genoways, and Charles Harper Webb as winner of this year’s $10,000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The award is given annually by Claremont Graduate University to “a first book by a poet of genuine promise.” 2008 AWP Award judge Lynn Emanuel calls Temper “an unforgettable first book…Temper’s account of a murder encompasses the polarities of flesh and spirit, love and horror.” Poet Nick Flynn writes of the book, “a beautiful unease suffuses these poems-they make me aware I’m alive, and certain of nothing.” Bachmann’s poems appear in APR, Ploughshares and Tin House. She teaches creative writing at Vanderbilt University.

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