Give me a man who wears his scars on the outside.
I can work with imperfect. I know what to do
with contradiction. A man who will stare
his faults down in the mirror
and not blanch, knows
when I hold him,

I am not so easily exchanged for another.

–Bianca Spriggs,
How Swallowtails Become Dragons (2011)
Accents Publishing

• An Interview with Bianca Spriggs (Part 1) (Part 2)
• Writing Challenge: “Below the Surface”
• Bianca Spriggs on Accents Radio (8/16/13)
• Bianca Spriggs’s LPM Submissions

Affrilachian Poet and Cave Canem Fellow Bianca Spriggs is a freelance instructor of composition, literature, and creative writing. She holds degrees from Transylvania University and the University of Wisconsin. She is a Kentucky Humanities Council Lecturer and the creator and programmer of the Gypsy Poetry Slam featured annually at the Kentucky Women Writers Conference. Heralded as “the new standard bearer for the Affrilachian Poets” by founding member Frank X Walker, Bianca is the author of Kaffir Lily (Wind Publications) and her work may also be found in the anthologies New Growth: Recent Kentucky Writings and America! What’s My Name? and the journals Union Station Magazine, Appalachian Heritage Magazine, and others.