Courtney DuChene

Courtney DuChene is a poet, journalist, and essayist based in Philadelphia, PA. She holds an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers program at the University of Michigan. Her work has been recognized and supported by the Hopwood Awards, the Vermont Studio Center, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. Her poems, essays and interviews can be found or are forthcoming in Frontier, RHINO, the New England Review, Philadelphia Stories, Glass Mountain, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Millions and the White Review, where she was shortlisted for the 2023 poet’s prize. She was long-listed for the 2023 Rising Poet Prize from Palette Poetry. She is currently an editorial intern and senior reader for Electric Literature.