Aza Pace 

Aza Pace is the author of Her Terrible Splendor, which won the Emma Howell Rising Poet Prize and was published by Willow Springs Books in 2025. Her poems appear in The Southern Review, Copper Nickel, New Ohio Review, Tupelo Quarterly, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere, and she is the winner of two Academy of American Poets University Prizes. Aza holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Houston and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of North Texas, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of American Literary Review. She lives and writes in Texas.