Destiny O. Birdsong

Destiny O. Birdsong is a Louisiana-born writer whose work has appeared in The Paris Review Daily, Poets & Writers, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. A contributing editor to Poets & Writers, she is the author of the poetry collection, Negotiations (Tin House, 2020), and the triptych novel Nobody's Magic (Grand Central, 2022), which was a finalist for the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and won the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction. She lives in Knoxville, Tennessee.