from River Heron Poetry Prize final judge Alina Stefanescu:

"A resonant and gorgeous ode that brings us straight inside the dress, inside the rituals and meanings and complicated rites of passage, inside the "gringa heart" and tension between wanting to be princessed by the dominant culture and wanting to be accepted as "a Real Latina." I loved the use of classic form to bring us into uncertainty and complexity rather than resolution. I felt this dress rising from the dead to challenge the "hegemonic hourglass" in silhouette, musicality, and unforgettable motions."

Lupita Eyde-Tucker writes and translates poetry in English and Spanish. She's the winner of the 2019 Betty Gabehart Prize for Poetry, and a Fellow at the Watering Hole. Her poems appear in Nashville Review, Asymptote, Columbia Journal, Raleigh Review, The Arkansas International, Yemassee, Pilgrimage, Waccamaw, and Chautauqua. She's translating two collections of poetry by Venezuelan poet Oriette D'Angelo, and pursuing her MFA in Poetry at University of Florida.

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