A 2016 Guggenheim Fellow in poetry, Beth Bachmann is the author of three collections in the Pitt Poetry Series at the University of Pittsburgh Press, each recognized with a major prize. Temper (2009) won the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Do Not Rise (2015) won the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and CEASE (2018) received the Virginia Quarterly Review's Emily Clark Balch Prize.