The Griffin Poetry Prize-nominated collection Nerve Squall is Sylvia Legris’s third book-length poetry collection; her previous books are iridium seeds and circuitry of veins. She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, in 2001 she won the Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize for ‘Fishblood Sky,’ and she received an Honorable Mention in the poetry category of the 2004 National Magazine Awards. She is currently a resident in the state of fidgety fretfulness.
